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Unglückliche Ehe | Unhappy marriage, a teḥinah by Pereẓ Beer (1815)

“Unglückliche Ehe (Unhappy Marriage)” was first published in Pereẓ (Peter) Beer’s Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion (1815), as teḥinah №39 on p. 127-129 where it was rendered in Judeo-German. The German rendering transcribed above follows teḥinah №39 in Henry Frank’s 1839 edition on p. 108-110. A variation can also be found in the Beer’s 1843 edition as teḥinah №40 on p. 107-109. . . .

Categories: Marriage

Tags: 19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, Problematic prayers, תחינות teḥinot, Teḥinot in German

Contributor(s): Pereẓ (Peter) Beer and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Andachtsübung einer Braut an ihrem Hochzeitstage | Devotional exercise of a bride on her wedding day, a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829)

“Andachtsübung einer Braut an ihrem Hochzeitstage” 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, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion as teḥinah №80 on pp. 124-127. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №79 on pp. 144-147. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №82 on pp. 149-152. . . .

Categories: Marriage

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

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

Gebet einer Stiefmutter | Prayer of a stepmother, a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829)

“Gebet einer Stiefmutter” 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, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion as teḥinah №82 on pp. 129-131. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №82 on pp. 151-154. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №85 on pp. 156-159. . . .

Categories: Child care, Marriage, 🇮🇱 Yom ha-Ém (30 Shəvat), 🇺🇸 Mother's Day (2nd Sunday of May)

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

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

Gebet einer Mutter am Hochzeittage ihrer Tochter | Prayer of a mother on the wedding day of her daughter, a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829)

“Gebet einer Mutter am Hochzeittage ihrer Tochter” 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, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion as teḥinah №81 on pp. 127-129. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №81 on pp. 150-151. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №84 on pp. 155-156. . . .

Categories: Marriage

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

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

Gebet einer Wittwe | Prayer of a Widow, a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829)

“Gebet einer Wittwe” 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, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion as teḥinah №83 on pp. 131-133. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №83 on pp. 154-157. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №86 on pp. 159-162. . . .

Categories: Child care, Mourning, Marriage

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

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

Gebet einer Braut vor der Trauung | Prayer of a bride before the wedding ceremony, a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1833)

“Gebet einer Braut vor der Trauung” 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 added to the 1833 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion on pp. 133-135. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №80 on pp. 148-149. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №83 on pp. 153-154. . . .

Categories: Marriage

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

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

Gebet einer unglücklichen Ehegattin | Prayer of an unhappy wife, a teḥinah by Max Emanuel Stern (1841)

“Gebet einer unglücklichen Ehegattin” was written by Max Emanuel Stern and published in Die fromme Zionstochter (1841), pp. 124-127. In its 1846 printing, the prayer is found on pp. 127-129. . . .

Categories: Marriage

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, Problematic prayers, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s): Menaḥem Mendel Stern and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Blest is the Bond of Wedded Love, a hymn on “Matrimonial Love” by Penina Moïse (Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim 1842)

“Blest is the bond of wedded love,” by Penina Moïse, published in 1842, appears under the subject “Matrimonial Love” as Hymn 42 in Hymns Written for the Service of the Hebrew Congregation Beth Elohim, South Carolina (Penina Moïse et al., Ḳ.Ḳ. Beth Elohim, 1842), pp. 45-46. . . .

Categories: Marriage

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., ABAB rhyming scheme, English vernacular prayer, hymns, Problematic prayers, South Carolina

Contributor(s): Ḳahal Ḳadosh Beth Elohim (Charleston, South Carolina), Penina Moïse and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Prayer of a Wife for her Husband, by Marcus Heinrich Bresslau (1852)

“Prayer of a Wife for her Husband” by Marcus Heinrich Bresslau was first published in his תחנות בנות ישראל Devotions for the Daughters of Israel (1852), p. 57. . . .

Categories: Marriage

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot

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

Exercise for a wife who is married to an irreligious husband, by Rabbi Morris Jacob Raphall (1852)

“Exercise for a Wife who is married to an irreligious Husband” appears on pages 131-132 of רֻחָמָה (Ruḥamah): Devotional Exercises for the Use of the Daughters of Israel (1852) edited by Rabbi Morris Jacob Raphall (1798–1868). The prayer appears unique to this collection which otherwise contain selections from the teḥinot anthologies in German of Meir Letteris (1800-1871), Max Emanuel Stern (1811-1873), and Yehoshua Heshil Miro. If you know of another collection from which this prayer first appeared, please leave a comment or contact us. . . .

Categories: Marriage

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, irreligiosity, Jewish Women's Prayers, Problematic prayers, תחינות teḥinot

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

Gebet einer unglücklichen Ehegattin | Prayer of an unhappy wife, a teḥinah by Fanny Neuda (1855)

“Gebet einer unglücklichen Ehegattin” by Fanny Neuda was first published in her collection of teḥinot, Stunden der Andacht. ein Gebet⸗ und Erbauungs-buch für Israels Frauen und Jungfrauen (1855), pp. 92-93. In the 1864 Judeo-German edition, it is found on pp. 118-120. . . .

Categories: Marriage

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot, Teḥinot in German

Contributor(s): Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Gebet einer Frau, deren Mann auf Reisen ist | Prayer of a woman whose husband is travelling, by Fanny Neuda (1855)

A prayer of a wife whose spouse is away from home, travelling. . . .

Categories: Travel, Marriage

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., anxiety, Bohemian Jewry, German vernacular prayer, תחינות teḥinot, Teḥinot in German

Contributor(s): Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda and Aharon N. Varady (translation)

A Wife’s Prayer for Matrimonial Happiness, by Rabbi Moritz Mayer (1866)

A prayer of a woman contemplating her relationship with her husband in marriage. . . .

Categories: Marriage

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot

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

A Wife’s Prayer whose Husband is on a Journey, by Rabbi Moritz Mayer (1866)

A prayer of a wife on behalf of her husband traveling. . . .

Categories: Travel, Marriage

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot

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

A nő imája férjéért | A woman’s prayer for her husband, by Rabbi Arnold Kiss (1897)

This prayer by Rabbi Arnold Kiss for the well-being of a husband by their wife, “A nő imája férjéért,” was first published in his anthology of prayers for Jewish women, Mirjam (1897) on p.246-248. It doesn’t appear to me to have been translated in the subsequent German edition (1907). I’ve set my English translation side-by-side with the Magyar. –Aharon Varady . . .

Categories: Marriage

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Angelic Protection, Hungarian Jewry, Jewish Women's Prayers, Magyar vernacular prayer, teḥinot in Magyar, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s): Arnold Kiss and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

Beruria, an ode to the sage by Lise Tarlau (1907)

“Beruria” by Lisa Tarlau is an eponymous ode provided as the preface to Rabbi Max Grunwald’s anthology of Jewish women’s prayer, Beruria: Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für jüdische Frauen und Mädchen (1907), pages v-viii. . . .

Categories: Mourning, Marriage

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., children, elegy, German vernacular prayer, in the merit of Beruriah

Contributor(s): Lise Tarlau and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

[Prayer] for home, by Basil Lucas Quixano Henriques (1916)

Basil L.Q. Henriques’s prayer “For Home” was first published in The Fratres Book of Prayer for the Oxford and St. George’s Synagogue Jewish Lads Club in 1916, and later reprinted in the Prayer Book of the St. George’s Settlement Synagogue (1929), “Special Prayers” section, pages 95-96. . . .

Categories: Marriage, Homes & Community Centers

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., British Jewry, English vernacular prayer, Liberal Movement for Progressive Judaism in Britain, teḥinot in English

Contributor(s): Basil Lucas Quixano Henriques and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

תפילה לנשים קורבנות אלימות במשפחה | Prayer for Women Suffering from Domestic Violence — by Dr. Yael Levine (2017)

“Prayer for Women Suffering From Domestic Violence” by Yael Levine, was first published on the website of Kipa on 13 Marḥeshvan 5778 (2 November 2017). The English translation, by the author, was first published in Stand By Me: Hebrew Prayers for All Believers, Volume 1, edited by Shira Schechter and Rabbi Tuly Weisz, (Israel365: 2024), pp. 58-61. . . .

Categories: Marriage, 🌐 Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (November 25th)

Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., domestic violence, Jewish Women's Prayers, women

Contributor(s): Yael Levine

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