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

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Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription) and Ben-Tsiyon Alfes

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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

This collection of teḥinot includes Ben-Tsiyon’s Maase Alfes (Tales of Alfes) and contains additional insights drawn from a handful of other sources collectively referred to as “Rav Peninim” (A Multitude of Pearls). These other sources include: Binyan Tsiyon, Shaarei Tsiyon, P’ri Hagafen, Peninim Yeqarim (Rabbi Shimon Betzalel Neuman), Rishon L’tsiyon, and Tiferet Tsiyon.

Dr. Chava Weissler writes:

By the mid-nineteenth century, different forms of tkhines appeared. As East European Jewish family structure changed, and the age of marriage rose, tkhines were composed that expressed an entirely new sensibility, influenced by the rising ideal of the bourgeois family, with its stress on sentiment and emotional family ties and its new definition of gender roles.
Moreover, tkhines themselves became vehicles for various reformist programs. Ben-Tsiyon Alfes (1850–1940), an Orthodox author and activist, composed Shas tkhine khadoshe (A New Tkhine of Six Orders) as an integral part of his project to spread love for traditional Jewish life, hoping thereby to counteract the influence of secularism. His tkhines repeatedly point to the critical role of women in maintaining a Jewish home and raising Jewish children. Further, his view of the family was influenced by the image of the ideal bourgeois family of his day.

Shas Teḥinah Ḥadashah was published by Rosenkranz & Schriftsetzer, Abraham Z. Rosenkranz (1815-1901) in partnership with a younger brother and Samuel Joseph Finn. (Schriftsetzer means typesetter in Yiddish.)

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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.)

Ben-Tsiyon Alfes

Ben-Tsiyon (also Ben-Zion) Alfes (Hebrew: בן-ציון אלפס‎) (1851-1941) was a rabbi, author, prolific author of Yiddish religious literature, commentator and compiler of prayers in vernacular Yiddish. His most well-known book is Maaseh Alfes (Tales of Alfes). The last work he saw published, written at age 90, was an autobiography titled "The Life Story of the Maase Alfes." Another work, Toledot ve-Zikhronot, also an autobiography, but with a different focus, was published posthumously.

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