Wenn man vom Begräbnißplatz geht | When you leave the burial place, a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1835)

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Andreas Rusterholz (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (translation) and Yehoshua Heshil Miro

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Mourning

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Jewish Women's Prayers, German vernacular prayer, German Jewry, resurrection, cemetery prayers, 19th century C.E., תחינות teḥinot, 56th century A.M.

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Source (German)

Translation (English)

Wenn man vom Begräbnißplatz geht.

When you leave the burial place.

Ruhet in Frieden, ihr reinen Seelen, entsprungen vom Glanze dessen, der das Licht erschaffen hat. Indem ich von hinnen gehe, preiset meine Seele Gott. Ich flehe den Ewiglebenden, daß er mir Seele und Geist erhalte. Er vermehre Ehre und Ruhm, derer, die nach Vollkommenheit streben; den Bescheidenen lasse er das Streben nach Tugend gelingen; den Heiligen, die seinen Willen zu thun streben, gewähre er die Freude, zu sehen wie ihre Kinder Gottes Gebote beobachten. Er verlängere ihr Leben, daß sie ihres Volkes Erlösung schauen. So ruht denn, ihr Redlichen, ruhet, bis der ewiglebende Gott, der Herr des Himmels und der Erde euch zuruft: Erhebt euch, ihr Redlichen, erhebt euch zur Auferstehung! — Wir mögen erhalten werden zu einem glückseligen Leben, bis der zuverläßige Gesandte, der Erlöser vom Gott Jakobs kommt, um die Herzen der Eltern den Kindern, und das Herz der Kinder den Eltern zuzukehren ohne Trug. Unsre Tugend gehe vor uns her, und aus allen Kräften wollen wir den allmächtigen, wundervollen Gott preisen, der durch sein Wort die Todten belebt. Er thut unerforschlich große Dinge, Wunder ohne Zahl. Gepriesen sei der, der die Todten belebt.

Rest in peace, you pure souls, sprung from the splendor of Him who created the light. As I pass away, my soul praises God. I beseech the Eternal Living One to preserve my soul and spirit. May he increase the honor and glory of those who strive for perfection; may he make the humble succeed in the pursuit of virtue; may he grant the saints who strive to do his will the joy of seeing their children observe God’s commandments. He prolongs their lives so that they may see the salvation of their people. Rest then, ye righteous, rest until the ever-living God, the Lord of heaven and earth, shall call unto you: Arise, ye righteous, arise unto the resurrection! — We may be preserved to a blissful life until the reliable messenger, the redeemer from the God of Jacob comes to turn the hearts of parents to children, and the hearts of children to parents without deceit. Let our virtue go before us, and with all our might let us praise the almighty, wonderful God, who by his word revives the dead. He does inscrutably great things, wonders without number. Praise be to him who revives the dead.

“Wenn man vom Begräbnißplatz geht” was translated/adapted by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. It first appears in the 1835 edition as teḥinah №132 on pp. 248-249.

We welcome corrections and improvements. The transcription of the German from Latin script in Fraktur type provided machine-readable text for a machine translation by DeepL, which we then edited for accuracy and clarity. –Aharon Varady

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Andreas Rusterholz (transcription)

Andreas Rusterholz is a professor of Theology (New Testament and Hermeneutics) at Kwansei Gakuin University School of Humanities Department of Literature and Linguistics. He translated (together with Takako Noguchi, 1943-2017) Jüdische Religion by Günter Stemberger (Beck 1995) into Japanese: Yudayakyo - Rekishi, Shinko, Bunka [Judaism: History, Faith, Culture], Kyobunkwan 2015.

Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Aharon Varady (M.A.J.Ed./JTSA Davidson) is a volunteer translator for the Open Siddur Project. If you find any mistakes in his translations, 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 transcribes prayers and contributes his own original work besides serving as the primary shammes for the Open Siddur Project and its website, opensiddur.org.)

Yehoshua Heshil Miro

Yehoshua Heshil ben Rabbi Binyamin Miro (fl. first-half 19th c.) was a writer and Jewish educator in Prussia, an early advocate and teacher of Jewish girls. He worked as a professor at a private school, and a teacher at the Königliche Wilhelms-Schule (and possibly also the Industrial School for Israelite Girls), in then Prussian Breslau. We know very little else about Miro aside from his publication of a popular anthology of teḥinot for German speaking women first published in 1829. If you know more about Miro, please contact us.

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