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תְּחִנָה לְשַׁבָּת מְבָרְכִים רֹאשׁ חוֹדֶשׁ אַדָר | Tkhine for Shabbat Mevorkhim Rosh Ḥodesh Adar ב and Adar on regular non-leap years (1877)

Contributed by: Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

To the best of my ability, this is a faithful transcription of the תְּחִנָה לְשַׁבָּת מְבָרְכִים רֹאשׁ חוֺדֶשׁ אַדָר (“Tkhine for Shabbat Mevorkhim Rosh Ḥodesh Adar [II]”) which appeared in תחנות מקרא קודש (Teḥinot Miqra Qodesh, Widow and Brothers Romm, Vilna 1877). English translation adapted slightly from Techinas: A Voice from the Heart “As Only A Woman Can Pray” by Rivka Zakutinsky (Aura Press, 1992). –A.N. Varady

תְּחִנָה זאָגט מען װען מען בּײַסט אָפּ דעם פִּטוּם פוּן דעם אֶתְרוֹג | Tkhine for when biting the pitom from the etrog (Siddur Ḳorban Minḥah, 1861)

Contributed by: Emily Kesselman (art & transcription), Baruch Jean Thaler (translation), Unknown

A tkhine for when biting the pitom from the etrog

תְּחִינָה לִשָּׁבוּעוֺת נאָך ליכט צינדן | Tkhine upon Candlelighting at the Onset of Shavuot

Contributed by: Unknown, Jonah S. Boyarin (translation), Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

This tekhina (supplication) upon candlelighting for Shavuot in Hebrew and Yiddish appears in the Maḥzor for Shavuot Rav Peninim (Vilna 1911) although we are uncertain whether it first appeared here. We welcome your help in correctly attributing and translating it.

תחנה אױף קינדער האבין (פאר א אִשָׁה װאָס האָט ניט קײַן קינדער)‏ | Tkhine for Having Children for a Woman who Has No Children (ca. 1840)

Contributed by: Norman Tarnor (translation), Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

A prayer for a childless woman seeking to conception.

תחינה פאר א אִשָּׁה פאר דעד חוּפָּה פון איר זון ארער איר טאָכטער | Tkhine for a mother to say before the wedding of her daughter (19th c.)

Contributed by: Mendel Spalter (translation), Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

A tkhine (supplication) for a mother to say before her daughter’s wedding, transcribed and translated from the Siddur Qorban Minḥah (1897).

תחנה פיר אין כלה פאר דער חופה | Prayer for a Bride before her Wedding (19th c.)

Contributed by: Mendel Spalter (translation), Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

A tkhine (supplication) for a bride to say before their wedding, transcribed and translated from the Siddur Qorban Minḥah (1897).

תפלת הים | Prayer for a Seaship Voyage, or During a Storm at Sea (1837)

Contributed by: Isaac Leeser (translation), David de Aaron de Sola, Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

A prayer for those traveling over water on a sea or ocean voyage.

תְּחִנָה פון רֹאשׁ חוֹדֶשׁ בענטשן | Tkhine for the Rosh Ḥodesh Blessing, by an unknown author

Contributed by: Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

The teḥinah for the blessing of the new moon is said each Shabbat Mevorkhim, addition to the specific teḥinah for that month. The prayer is recited when the Aron HaKodesh is opened, signifying the opening of the Heavenly gates of mercy (an especially propitious time to pray for health, livelihood, and all good).

תחנה אמהות | Teḥinah Imahot for Shabbat Mevorkhim by Leah Horowitz in her Yiddish translation (ca. 1790) with its posthumously expanded adaptation

Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Tracy Guren Klirs (translation), Moshe Rosman (translation), Unknown, Leah Horowitz

This is an expanded posthumous adaptation of the Yiddish translation of “Teḥinah Imahot” originally written by Leah Horowitz and published in the late 18th century. This variation is found in The Merit of Our Mothers בזכות אמהות A Bilingual Anthology of Jewish Women’s Prayers, compiled and translated by Rabbi Tracy Guren Klirs (Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1992), pp. 84-88. The concluding prayer is longer in this variation than in the earliest published version.

A Prayer for a Woman before giving birth, from a Seder Tkhines (ca. 1640-1720)

Contributed by: Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

A prayer for a pregnant woman anticipating childbirth, from an unidentified volume of the Seder Tkhines (circa 1640-1720).

Teḥinah upon tearing off the pitom of the etrog on Hoshana Rabba, from the Tsenah Ur’enah (1622)

Contributed by: Unknown, Morris M. Faierstein (translation), Yaaqov ben Yitsḥaq Ashkenazi

This is Dr. Morris Faierstein’s transcription and translation of one of the earliest teḥinot from the earliest surviving edition of the Tsenah u-Re’enah (Basel/Hanau 1622) as found in his article “The Earliest Published Yiddish Tehinnot (1590–1609)” in Hebrew Union College Annual, 2020, Vol. 91 (2020). The transcription of the Yiddish sourcetext is found on page 206 and the English translation is found on page 187. The translation is shared under the libre Open Access license (Creative Commons Attribution) provided for the critical translation of the text in Ze’enah U-Re’enah: A Critical Translation into English (Volume 96 in the series Studia Judaica, ed. Morris M. Faierstein; De Gruyter 2017).

A Delightful Tkhine for a Pregnant Woman to Say (ca. early 17th c.)

Contributed by: Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

A prayer of a pregnant woman anticipating childbirth.

A Prayer for a Pregnant Woman to Say when She Wishes for an Easy Labor (ca. early 17th c.)

Contributed by: Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

A prayer for a pregnant woman anticipating her childbirth.

תְּחִנַּת שָׁלוֹם עֲלֵיכֶם | Shalom Aleikhem teḥinah after lighting the Shabbat candles (1600)

Contributed by: Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Morris M. Faierstein (translation), Unknown

This is the Hebrew text of a teḥinah for Shalom Aleikhem intended for women lighting candles on the commencement of Shabbat and festival days as found on the last page in the Basel edition of the [collection of prayers entitled] Birkhat ha-Mazon (Basel: Waldkirch, 1600). The English translation is by Rabbi Dr. Morris M. Faierstein as published in “An Early Modern Version of Shalom Aleichem for Women after Friday Candle Lighting” in Women in Judaism, 19(2), on page 4.

תְּפִלָּה מְעֻלָּה בְּיוֹתֵר כּוֹלֶלֶת כ״ד דְּבָרִים | A Very Good Prayer with Twenty-Four Things in It, from an Italian-rite maḥzor (1446)

Contributed by: Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (translation), Unknown

A personal petition in rhymed prose from the introduction to Vat. Ross. 499, an Italian-rite maḥzor from the year 1446 with a lot of very cool liturgical content in it. Frankly, the title drew me in.

תפילת הדרך | Tefilat haDerekh, a traveler’s prayer for safety and peace (trans. Rabbi David Seidenberg, neohasid·org)

Contributed by: David Seidenberg (translation), Neohasid·org, Unknown

In this Tefilat haDerekh (the prayer for travel), I’ve made a synthesis of Ashkenazi and Sefardi nusaḥ. Even though the translation is pretty close to literal in most places, it comes across as an extraordinary and activist prayer for peace. So I think of this prayer not just as a prayer for the beginning a physical journey, but for any spiritual journey, and especially for any campaign or action for justice and peace that a person or group might undertake. When applied to activism, the “enmity and ambush and theft and predation” we ask to be rescued from could also be interpreted as hatred, deceit, jealousy, and aggression, i.e., the kinds of feelings that cause people to work against each other, even within an organization, instead of working together. I first used this version of the prayer at the beginning of a tour of Israel and Palestine focused on the human rights and non-violent resistance, when the group passed through the first checkpoint of the trip.

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