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Contributed by:
Emily Kesselman (art & transcription), Baruch Jean Thaler (translation), Unknown
A tkhine for when biting the pitom from the etrog . . .
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. . . .
Contributed by:
Norman Tarnor (translation), Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
A prayer for a childless woman seeking to conception. . . .
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). . . .
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). . . .
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. . . .
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). . . .
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). . . .
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). . . .
Contributed by:
Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
A prayer of a pregnant woman anticipating childbirth. . . .
Contributed by:
Unknown, Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
A prayer for a pregnant woman anticipating her childbirth. . . .
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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