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This is a collection of seder teḥinot -- arrangements of vernacular supplicatory and paraliturgical prayers intended for private devotional use outside and supplementary to prayers offered publicly in the synagogue.

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📖 בֵּית יַעֲקֹב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion, an anthology of teḥinot in German by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829/1833, 1835/1842)

These are Yehoshua Heshil Miro’s anthologies of teḥinot, beginning with תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion (1829), one of the earliest anthologies of teḥinot published in German rather than Yiddish. A slightly revised edition with six pieces added and three removed followed in 1833. That work served as the basis for a much larger compilation, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion (1835), which, for the first time, printed the tehinot in German in a Latin (rather than Hebrew) script using the then common Fraktur typeface. A slightly enlarged expanded edition of Beit Yaaqov published in 1842 contains an additional teḥinah (as well as approbations by Rabbi Abraham Geiger and Rabbi Solomon Tiktin).

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Memorial, Funeral, and Cemetery Prayer Guides, Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, pedagogy, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Yehoshua Heshil Miro

📖 Union Home Prayer Book (CCAR 1951)

The Union Home Prayer Book (1951) is an anthology of prayers for family and personal use following in the tradition of the Seder Teḥinot and many earlier anthologies of private (non-communal) prayer practice. In the largest section, “Meditations,” the collection re-published 36 of the prayers from CCAR’s ברכה ותהלה Blessing and Praise: A Book of Meditations and Prayers for Individual and Home Devotion (1923), omitting 15. To these, three new prayers were added, along with some new sections: “Family Worship,” “Personal Prayers for Special Occassions,” “Prayers for Night and Morning,” and “Prayers in Time of Sickness and Death.”

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Memorial, Funeral, and Cemetery Prayer Guides, Personal & Paraliturgical collections of prayers

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20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., American Reform Movement, English vernacular prayer, teḥinot in English

Contributor(s):

Central Conference of American Rabbis [CCAR] and Aharon N. Varady (digital imaging and document preparation)

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