תחנה פון אײן שװאנגער אשה זאל ניט מפיל זיין | Tkhine for a Pregnant Woman that She Not Miscarry (1910)

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Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription), Tracy Guren Klirs (translation) and Unknown Author(s)

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Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth

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Jewish Women's Prayers, Yiddish vernacular prayer, Problematic prayers, pregnancy, prayers for pregnant women, 20th century C.E., תחינות tkhines, תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M.

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Source (Yiddish)

Translation (English)

אָנָא ה׳ אֱלֹהֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל, איך בּעט דיר דער גאָט פון יִשְׂרָאֵל, אז דוא זאָלסט פארנעמען מײַן גיבּעט, װי דו האָסט פארנומען דאָס גיבּעט פון אונזער מוטער די נְבִיאָה חַנָה, װאָס זי האָט גיבעטין אױף איר זוהן שְׁמוּאֵל הַנָבִיא, אונ איר זְכוּת זאָל מיר בּײַשטײן, אז איך דײַן מאגד זאָל דאָס קינד װאָס איך טראָג יעצט אין די גידערים (דײַן באשעפעניש) זאָל איך אױסטראָגין אין גאינצין שװאנגערהײַט, עס זאָל ארױס אגיזונדע קינד, עס זאָל זײַן אײַן פרומער יוד, ער זאָל דיר דינען בְּכׇל לֵב וָנָפֶשׁ, ער זאָל זײַן אײַן אוֹהֵב תּוֹרָה, אונ אײַן יָרֵא שָׁמַיִם, װי דײַן הײליגער װילען, אונ ער זאָל זײַן אײַן שײנע פלאנצונג אין דעם ױדישען װײַנגארטען לְתִּפְאֶרֶת יִשְׁרָאֵל, אָמֵן׃

I entreat You, YHVH, elo’ah of Yisrael, accept my prayer, just as you accepted the prayer of our mother, Ḥanah haNiviyah, which she prayed for her son, Shmuel haNavi. And may her merit assist me, so that I, your maidservant, may bear to full term this child that I now carry in my womb – your creation – and that a healthy child may emerge. May he be a pious Jew, may he serve you with all his heart and soul, may he love Torah and be in awe of Heaven, according to your holy will, and may he be a beautiful seedling in the Jewish vineyard for the splendor of Yisro’el. Amen.

This is a faithful transcription of the תחנה פון אײן שװאנגער אשה זאל ניט מפיל זיין (“Tkhine for a Pregnant Woman that Shen Not Miscarry”) as it appears in the compilation of tkhines, Rokhl Weeps for Her Children (1910). I have transcribed it without any changes from The Merit of Our Mothers בזכות אמהות A Bilingual Anthology of Jewish Women’s Prayers, compiled by Rabbi Tracy Guren Klirs, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1992. shgiyot mi yavin, ministarot nakeni. I have also tagged this prayer as problematic given that the gendered language of the prayer is biased towards male offspring. –Aharon Varady

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Notes
1	I Samuel 2:1-10.
2	Legends, IV, 27.

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“תחנה פון אײן שװאנגער אשה זאל ניט מפיל זיין | Tkhine for a Pregnant Woman that She Not Miscarry (1910)” is shared through the Open Siddur Project with a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International copyleft license.

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription)

Aharon Varady (M.A.J.Ed./JTSA Davidson) is a volunteer transcriber for the Open Siddur Project. If you find any mistakes in his transcriptions, please let him know. Shgiyot mi yavin; Ministarot naqeni שְׁגִיאוֹת מִי־יָבִין; מִנִּסְתָּרוֹת נַקֵּנִי "Who can know all one's flaws? From hidden errors, correct me" (Psalms 19:13). If you'd like to directly support his work, please consider donating via his Patreon account. (Varady also translates prayers and contributes his own original work besides serving as the primary shammes of the Open Siddur Project and its website, opensiddur.org.)

Tracy Guren Klirs (translation)

Rabbi Tracy Guren Klirs received her B.A. in Yiddish literature at the University of Chicago and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1977. She was ordained as a rabbi from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati in 1984. Her book, The Merit of Our Mothers: A Bilingual Anthology of Jewish Women’s Prayers, was published by HUC Press in 1992. She serves as the rabbi of Temple Kol Tikvah in Davidson, North Carolina.

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