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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.
Child care | Rosh Ḥodesh Elul (אֶלוּל) | Erev Shabbat | Learning, Study, and School | Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth | Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit) | Shabbat Məvorkhim | Rosh Ḥodesh Tishrei (תִּשְׁרֵי) | Yom Kippur
Angels as advocates | Areinfirenish | baking ḥallah | candle lighting | candles | children | days of awe | erev yom kippur | פעלד־מעסטען feldmesten | fire | first experiences | חלה challah ḥallah | Imahot as Advocates | Jewish Women's Prayers | kheyder | kindling | lamp lighting | memento mori | Needing Attribution | Needing Source Images | Paraliturgical Prayer for the New Month | Paraliturgical removal of the Torah from the Ark | prayers for pregnant women | Prayers of Primary Caregivers | pregnancy | Problematic prayers | ḳever mesten | religious school | repentance | school | שופר shofar | taking dough | תחינות teḥinot | תחינות tkhines | Torah scrolls as advocates | ימים נוראים yamim noraim | Yiddish vernacular prayer | זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah | 18th century C.E. | 20th century C.E. | 55th century A.M. | 56th century A.M. | 57th century A.M.
תחנה פאר די ליכט מאכין אום ערב יום כפור | Tkhine for Candlemaking on Erev Yom Kippur, by Sarah bat Tovim (ca. early 18th c.)
Contributed on: 01 Sep 2020 by Tracy Guren Klirs (translation) | Sarah bat Tovim | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | ❧
This is the tkhine for candlemaking on erev Yom Kippur as found in Sarah bat Tovim’s Tkhine of Three Gates, likely written by her sometime in the early 18th century. . . .
