📖 רָחֵל מְבַכָּה עַל־בָּנֶיהָ | Rokhl M’vako al Boneho: A Nayye Shas Tekhine :: Raḥel Weeps for Her Children: A New Collection of Teḥinot (Vilna 1910)

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Rokhl Esther bat Aviḥayil and Unknown Author(s)

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Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, Yiddish vernacular prayer

Rokhl M’vako al Boneho is a compilation of Jewish women’s prayers in Yiddish published in Vilna in 1910, with prayers attributed to Rokhl Esther bat Aviḥayil, a Jewish woman living in Jerusalem. The phrase “Rokhl M’vako al Boneho” is from Jeremiah 31:15.

This digital scan of Rokhl M’vako al Boneho was prepared by Aharon Varady from a copy held in the collection of the Klau Library (HUC) in Cincinnati, Ohio. The scan was made in order to create faithful transcriptons and translations with direct reference to the original work.

A selection of 13 prayers appearing here were transcribed and translated by Rabbi Tracy Guren Klirs for her dissertation, later published as בזכות אמהות The Merit of Our Mothers: A Bilingual Anthology of Jewish Women’s Prayers, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1992.

Index of completed transcriptions and translations

תחנה אײדער אפרויא גײט אין טבילת מצוה | Tkhine for when a Woman Goes to Immerse in the Mikve
דיא װײבּער װאס האבּין אײן שׁװערין מזל צו קינדר זאלין דיא תחנה זאגין | Women who Have Bad Luck with Children Should Recite this Tkhine
א תחנה פאר א כלה קודם החופה | A Tkhine for a Bride [to say] before the Khupe
תחנה פאר אמוטער װאס פירט אקינד אין חדר | Tkhine for a Mother Leading their Child to Religious School
א תחנה פאר א מוטער װאס פירט איהר קינד דעם ערשׁטען מאל אין חדר | Tkhine for a Mother Who Leads their Child for the First Time to Religious School

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“📖 רָחֵל מְבַכָּה עַל־בָּנֶיהָ | Rokhl M’vako al Boneho: A Nayye Shas Tekhine :: Raḥel Weeps for Her Children: A New Collection of Teḥinot (Vilna 1910)” is shared through the Open Siddur Project with a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International copyleft license.

Rokhl Esther bat Aviḥayil

Rokhl Esther bat Aviḥayil is identified as a Jewish woman living in Jerusalem, the compiler or contributor to two collections of teḥinot published in Vilna, in the early 20th century. Little else so far is known of her.

Unknown Author(s)

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Detail from title page of Shas Teḥinah Ḥadashah

📖 ש״ס תחנה חדשה | Shas Teḥinah Ḥadashah (A New Tkhine of Six Orders), compiled by Ben-Tsiyon Alfes (Vilna 1910)

Stunden der Andacht- Andachtsbuch für israelitische Frauenzimmer (Fanny Neuda 1855) - title

📖 Stunden der Andacht. ein Gebet⸗ und Erbauungs-buch für Israels Frauen und Jungfrauen | Hours of Devotion. a Book of Prayer and Edification for Israel’s Women and Maiden, a collection

Included in the scanned work from which this transcription was made, an inscription on the flyleaf from M.B. Levy to his wife, Sarah, on Ḥanukkah 1866, San Francisco, California.

📖 אמרי לב | Meditations and Prayers, an unendorsed revision by Isaac Leeser (1863) of an abridged translation by Hester Rothschild (1855) of a collection of teḥinot by Rabbi Arnaud

📖 אמרי לב (Imrei Lev) Prières D’un Cœur Israélite, a collection of paraliturgical prayers and teḥinot in French by Jonas Ennery & Rabbi Arnaud Aron (1848/53)

📖 אמרי לב | Prayers and Meditations, and abridged translation by Hester Rothschild (1855) of a collection of teḥinot and paraliturgial prayers by Rabbi Arnaud Aron & Jonas Ennery (1852)

📖 ש״ס תחנה רב פנינים | Shas Teḥinah Rav Peninim (Hebrew Publishing Company 1916)

📖 מענה לשון: סדר תחינות על בית עלמין | Ma’aneh Lashon: Seder Teḥinot al Bet Almin, translated with additions by Goetzel Selikovitsch (1910)

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ויהי נעם אדני אלהינו עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננה עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננהו "May the pleasantness of אדֹני our elo’ah be upon us; may our handiwork be established for us — our handiwork, may it be established." –Psalms 90:17