An apotropaic ward for the protection of women in their pregnancy and of infant children against an attack from Lilith and her minions, containing the story witnessing her oath to the prophet, Eliyahu along with one variation of her many names.

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Incantations, Adjurations, & Amulets, Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth, Homes & Community Centers

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Angelic Protection, Angels of Healing, apotropaic prayers of protection, אליהו הנביא Eliyahu haNavi, entering magical territory, epical narrative as ward, historiola, infants, קמעות ḳame'ot, prayers concerning children, prayers for pregnant women, prophylactic

Contributor(s):

James Alan Montgomery (translation), Richard Gottheil (transcription), Unknown and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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

A prayer for a pregnant woman anticipating her childbirth.

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Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth

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17th century C.E., 54th century A.M., childbirth, first person, Jewish Women's Prayers, Needing Attribution, Needing Source Images, pregnancy, תחינות teḥinot, תחינות tkhines, Yiddish vernacular prayer

Contributor(s):

Unknown and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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

A prayer of a pregnant woman anticipating childbirth.

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Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth

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17th century C.E., 54th century A.M., childbirth, first person, Jewish Women's Prayers, Needing Attribution, Needing Source Images, pregnancy, Problematic prayers, תחינות teḥinot, תחינות tkhines, וידוים viduyim, Yiddish vernacular prayer

Contributor(s):

Unknown and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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

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

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Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth

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17th century C.E., 55th century A.M., first person, Jewish Women's Prayers, Needing Attribution, Needing Source Images, pregnancy, תחינות teḥinot, תחינות tkhines, Yiddish vernacular prayer

Contributor(s):

Unknown and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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)

A prayer for a childless woman seeking to conception.

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Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., conception, fertility, first person, Jewish Women's Prayers, Needing Transcription, pregnancy, תחינות teḥinot, תחינות tkhines, Yiddish vernacular prayer

Contributor(s):

Norman Tarnor (translation), Unknown and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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)

A tkhine for when biting the pitom from the etrog

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Hoshana Rabba, Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth

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19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., fertility, Jewish Women's Prayers, the pitom of the etrog, pregnancy, סגולות segulot, תחינות teḥinot, תחינות tkhines, Yiddish vernacular prayer

Contributor(s):

Emily Kesselman (art & transcription), Baruch Jean Thaler (translation) and Unknown

א תחנה פאר א אשה מעוברת אז זיא גײט צו קינד | Tkhine for a Pregnant Woman when She is about to Give Birth (1910)

A prayer for a pregnant woman approaching her childbirth.

Categories:

Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth

Tags:

20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, prayers for pregnant women, pregnancy, תחינות teḥinot, תחינות tkhines, Yiddish vernacular prayer

Contributor(s):

Tracy Guren Klirs (translation), Unknown and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

תחנה פאר אײן אִשָׁה װאָס דארף האָבּין אײַן קינד | Tkhine for a Woman who is about to Have a Child (1910)

A prayer for a pregnant woman whose childbirth is immanent.

Categories:

Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth

Tags:

20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, prayers for pregnant women, pregnancy, תחינות teḥinot, תחינות tkhines, Yiddish vernacular prayer

Contributor(s):

Tracy Guren Klirs (translation), Unknown and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

תחנה פון אײן שװאנגער אשה זאל ניט מפיל זיין | Tkhine for a Pregnant Woman that She Not Miscarry (1910)

A prayer for a pregnant woman that she not suffer a miscarriage.

Categories:

Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth

Tags:

20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, prayers for pregnant women, pregnancy, Problematic prayers, תחינות teḥinot, תחינות tkhines, Yiddish vernacular prayer

Contributor(s):

Tracy Guren Klirs (translation), Unknown and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

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