א תחנה פאר א אשה מעוברת אז זיא גײט צו קינד | Tkhine for a Pregnant Woman when She is about to Give Birth (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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Source (Yiddish)

Translation (English)

ליבער אונ גוטער גאָט! איך בין ניט װערט די חֲסָדִים, װאָס דו טוסט אימער מיט מיר, נאָר בִּזְכוּת די דרײַ מִצְוֹת, װעלכע דו האָסט גיבּאָטין יעדער אִשָׁה, נִדָה, חַלָה, הַדְלָקַת הַנֵר װאָס מען דארף היטען, די דרײַ מִצְוֹת זאָלין מגין זײַן אױף מיר, אז איך זאָל ניט בּאשטראָפט װערין חָלִילָה פאר די זינד פון חַוָה, אונ איך זאָל קײן גרױסע יְסוּרִים ניט לײַדין חָלִילָה, אונ איך זאָל געבּױרין א קינד אײַן עוֹבֵד ה׳ בֶּאֱמֶת וְאֱמוּנָה, בֶּן יְרֵא אֱלֹהִים׃

Good and dear God! I am not worthy of the lovingkindness that you always bestow upon me. May the merit of the three mitsvot which you have commanded every woman to keep — niddah, ḥallah, and hadlokot nerot — protect me, that I may not — ḥolilah — be punished for Ḥavah’s sin, and may I not — ḥolilah — suffer any great pain. May I give birth to a child who is a servant of YHVH in truth and in faith, a son who fears Elohim.

This is a faithful transcription of the א תחנה פאר א אשה מעוברת אז זיא גײט צו קינד (“Tkhine for a Pregnant Woman when She is about to Give Birth”) 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.

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1	Mishnah, Shabbat 2:6: “Because of three transgressions women die at childbirth: because they neglect the laws of menstrual purity, taking ḥallah, and lighting the candles.”

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“א תחנה פאר א אשה מעוברת אז זיא גײט צו קינד | Tkhine for a Pregnant Woman when She is about to Give Birth (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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