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Mourning

This is an archive of prayers composed for mourning. Some are for personal or private use. Others are for public, communal, and ceremonial functions. Some follow the formula of a Mourner’s Ḳaddish (Qaddish Yatom), others that of El Malé Raḥamim, and still others are adaptations or free-form with or without Hebrew, reflecting upon grief and interconnection and composed in a vernacular tongue.

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Am Todestage der Eltern (Jahrẓeit) | On the day of the death of the parents (Yahrẓeit), a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829)

“Am Todestage der Eltern (Jahrzeit)” was translated/adapted by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. It first appears in the 1829 edition as teḥinah №78 on pp. 119-122. In the 1935 edition, it appears as teḥinah №106 on pp. 209-212. . . .

Categories: Mourning

Tags: 19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, prayers on behalf of parents, תחינות teḥinot, יאָרצײַט‎ yahrẓeit

Contributor(s): Andreas Rusterholz (transcription), Yehoshua Heshil Miro and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Ein Kind am Grabe seiner Eltern | An orphan child at the grave of his parents, a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829)

“Ein Kind am Grabe seiner Eltern” was translated/adapted by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. It first appears in the 1829 edition as teḥinah №79 on pp. 122-124. In the 1935 edition, it appears as teḥinah №110 on pp. 212-214. . . .

Categories: Child care, Mourning

Tags: 19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., cemetery prayers, German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, prayers on behalf of parents, prayers of orphans, תחינות teḥinot, יאָרצײַט‎ yahrẓeit

Contributor(s): Andreas Rusterholz (transcription), Yehoshua Heshil Miro and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Gebet an der Jahrzeit des Vaters, während man fastet | Prayer on one’s Father’s Yahrẓeit (יאָרצײַט‎) while fasting, by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1835)

“Gebet an der Jahrzeit des Vaters, während man fastet” was written by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №129, on pp. 244-245. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №130, pp. 251-252. . . .

Categories: Mourning

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

Contributor(s): Yehoshua Heshil Miro and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

An der Jahrẓeit einer Mutter, wenn man fastet | On the Yahrẓeit of a mother when one is fasting, a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1835)

“An der Jahrzeit einer Mutter, wenn man fastet” was translated/adapted by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. It first appears in the 1835 edition as teḥinah №131 on pp. 247-248. . . .

Categories: Mourning

Tags: 19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., fasting, German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, prayers on behalf of parents, תחינות teḥinot, יאָרצײַט‎ yahrẓeit

Contributor(s): Andreas Rusterholz (transcription), Yehoshua Heshil Miro and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Wenn man einen Leichenstein setzt, oder auch am Jahrẓeittage | When one sets a funeral stone, or also on the Yahrẓeit — a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1835)

“Wenn man einen Leichenstein setzt, oder auch am Jahrzeittage” was translated/adapted by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. It first appears in the 1835 edition as teḥinah №130 on pp. 245-247. . . .

Categories: Interment, Mourning

Tags: 19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., cemetery prayers, German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, prayers on behalf of parents, תחינות teḥinot, יאָרצײַט‎ yahrẓeit

Contributor(s): Andreas Rusterholz (transcription), Yehoshua Heshil Miro and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Gebet am Tage der Gedächtnißfeier verstorbener Eltern, an deren Grabe zu sprechen | Prayer to be said on the day of the memorial service of deceased parents at their graves, a teḥinah by Rabbi Salomon Pleßner (1835)

“Gebet am Tage der Gedächtnißfeier verstorbener Eltern, an deren Grabe zu sprechen” was included by Yehoshua Heshil Miro in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. It first appears in the 1835 edition as teḥinah №111 on pp. 214-216. In a note to this prayer, Miro records that Rabbi Salmon Plessner sent this prayer to him, and from this we infer that its authorship may also be attributed to him. . . .

Categories: Interment, Mourning

Contributor(s): Andreas Rusterholz (transcription), Yehoshua Heshil Miro, Salomon Plessner and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

Prayer on the Anniversary of the Death of a Parent (יאָרצײַט), by Marcus Heinrich Bresslau (1852)

A prayer of a daughter on the yahrzeit of her mother or father. . . .

Categories: Mourning

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, prayers on behalf of parents, תחינות teḥinot, יאָרצײַט‎ yahrẓeit

Contributor(s): Marcus Heinrich Bresslau and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Exercise for the Anniversary of a Parent’s Decease (יאָרצײַט), translated by Rabbi Morris Jacob Raphall (1852)

“Exercise for the Anniversary of a Parent’s Decease, (YahrZeit.)” appears on page 138-139 of רֻחָמָה (Ruḥamah): Devotional Exercises for the Use of the Daughters of Israel (1852) edited by Rabbi Morris Jacob Raphall (1798–1868) from selections made from the teḥinot anthologies in German of Meir Letteris (1800-1871), Max Emanuel Stern (1811-1873), and Yehoshua Heshil Miro. . . .

Categories: Mourning

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, prayers on behalf of parents, תחינות teḥinot, יאָרצײַט‎ yahrẓeit

Contributor(s): Morris Jacob Raphall and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

[Prayer] on the Anniversary of a Parent’s Death (יאָרצײַט‎), by Rabbi Moritz Mayer (1866)

A prayer of a daughter for mourning on the yortseit of one or both of her parents. . . .

Categories: Mourning

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, prayers on behalf of parents, תחינות teḥinot, יאָרצײַט‎ yahrẓeit

Contributor(s): Moritz Mayer and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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