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Rabbi Tracy Guren Klirs recieved 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 currently serves as director of education at Temple Israel in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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

Categories: Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth

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

תחנה פאר אײן אִשָׁה װאָס דארף האָבּין אײַן קינד | Tkhine for a Woman who is about to Have a Child (1910)

Categories: Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth

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

תחנה פאר אמוטער װאס פירט אקינד אין חדר | Tkhine for a Mother Leading their Child to Religious School (1910)

Categories: Learning, Study, and School, Child care

Tags: 20th century C.E., תחינות tkhines, children, school, תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, Yiddish vernacular prayer, religious school, kheyder, Needing Source Images, Needing Attribution

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 (1910)

Categories: Learning, Study, and School, Child care

Tags: 20th century C.E., תחינות tkhines, children, school, first experiences, תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, Yiddish vernacular prayer, religious school, kheyder, Prayers of Parental Guardians, Needing Source Images, Needing Attribution

תחנה אמהות מן ראש חודש אלול | Tkhine of the Matriarchs for the New Moon of Elul, by Seril Rappaport (ca. 18th c.)

Categories: Shabbat Mevorkhim, Rosh Ḥodesh Elul

Tags: תחינות tkhines, אלול זמן Elul Zman, repentance, 56th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, 18th Century C.E., Yiddish vernacular prayer

תחנה אמהות | Tkhine of the Matriarchs for the Blowing of the Shofar by Seril Rappaport (ca. 18th century)

Categories: Rosh Hashanah, Rosh haShanah l'Maaseh Bereshit

Tags: שופר shofar, תחינות tkhines, repentance, תחינות teḥinot, 56th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, 18th Century C.E., Yiddish vernacular prayer, Imahot as Advocates, Angels as advocates

תחנה אמהות מן ראש חדש תשרי | Tkhine of the Matriarchs for the New Moon of Tishrei, by Seril Rappaport (ca. 18th century)

Categories: Rosh Hashanah, Shabbat Mevorkhim, Rosh haShanah l'Maaseh Bereshit, Rosh Ḥodesh Tishrei

Tags: תחינות tkhines, repentance, yamim noraim, days of awe, תחינות teḥinot, 56th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, 18th Century C.E., Yiddish vernacular prayer

תחנה פון ליכט בענטשין | Tkhine for Lighting Candles [for Shabbes]

Categories: Erev Shabbat

Tags: fire, kindling, תחינות tkhines, Needing Source Images, Needing Attribution

א תחנה פאר א אשה מעוברת אז זיא גײט צו קינד | Tkhine for a Pregnant Woman when She is about to Give Birth (1910)

Categories: Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth

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

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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

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