This is an archive of prayers for the wellbeing of those striving to conceive and bear children, as well as to recover from childbirth.
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🖖︎ Prayers & Praxes —⟶ 🌳︎ Life cycle —⟶ Living & Struggle —⟶ Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth 🡄 (Previous category) :: 📁 Marriage 📁 Homes & Community Centers :: (Next Category) 🡆 Conception, Pregnancy, and ChildbirthThis is an archive of prayers for the wellbeing of those striving to conceive and bear children, as well as to recover from childbirth. Filter resources by Name Pereẓ (Peter) Beer | Marcus Heinrich Bresslau | Richard Gottheil (transcription) | Emily Kesselman (art & transcription) | Tracy Guren Klirs (translation) | Elliot Kukla | Meïr haLevi Letteris | Moritz Mayer | Moritz Mayer (translation) | Yehoshua Heshil Miro | James Alan Montgomery (translation) | National Council of Jewish Women | Andreas Rusterholz (transcription) | Danya Ruttenberg | Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda | Norman Tarnor (translation) | Baruch Jean Thaler (translation) | Unknown | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Aharon N. Varady (translation) | Julia Watts Belser (translation) | Miriam Wertheimer (translation) | Hanna Yerushalmi Filter resources by Tag Abortion in the United States | American Jewry of the United States | amulet bowls | Angelic Protection | Angels | Angels of Healing | apotropaic prayers of protection | baby daughters | Bohemian Jewry | childbirth | cold iron | conception | אליהו הנביא Eliyahu haNavi | English vernacular prayer | entering magical territory | epical narrative as ward | fertility | first person | gender roles | geonic period | German Jewry | German vernacular prayer | historiola | infants | iron in folklore | Jewish Women's Prayers | קמעות ḳame'ot | Late Antiquity | naming | naming ceremonies | Needing Attribution | Needing Source Images | Needing Transcription | origin stories | pare | Parents blessing children | the pitom of the etrog | prayers concerning children | prayers for pregnant women | pregnancy | pregnancy loss | Problematic prayers | prophylactic | סגולות segulot | תחינות teḥinot | Teḥinot in German | תחינות tkhines | United States v. Texas (2021) | וידוים viduyim | Yiddish vernacular prayer | 17th century C.E. | 19th century C.E. | 20th century C.E. | 21st century C.E. | 54th century A.M. | 55th century A.M. | 56th century A.M. | 57th century A.M. | 58th century A.M. Filter resources by Category Homes & Community Centers | Hoshana Rabba | Incantations, Adjurations, & Amulets | Midrash Aggadah | Mourning | Theurgy | Well-being, health, and caregiving Filter resources by Language Filter resources by Date Range Resources filtered by LANGUAGE: “German”” (clear filter) Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? “[Gebet] In den letzten Monaten der Schwangerschaft (Prayer in the last months of pregnancy)” was first published in Pereẓ (Peter) Beer’s Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion (1815), as teḥinah №61 on pp. 173-175 where it was rendered in Judeo-German. The German rendering transcribed above follows teḥinah №61 in Henry Frank’s 1839 edition on pp. 148-150. A variation can also be found in Beer’s 1843 edition as teḥinah №62 on p. 147-149. “[Gebet] Nach der Entbindung (Prayer after the childbirth)” was first published in Pereẓ (Peter) Beer’s Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion (1815), as teḥinah №62 on pp. 175-177 where it was rendered in Judeo-German. The German rendering transcribed above follows teḥinah №62 in Henry Frank’s 1839 edition on pp. 150-151. A variation can also be found in Beer’s 1843 edition as teḥinah №63 on p. 149-150. “Gebet einer Shwangern (Prayer for a pregnant woman)” was first published in Pereẓ (Peter) Beer’s Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion (1815), as teḥinah №60 on pp. 172-173 where it was rendered in Judeo-German. The German rendering transcribed above follows teḥinah №60 in Henry Frank’s 1839 edition on pp. 147-148. A variation can also be found in Beer’s 1843 edition as teḥinah №61 on p. 146-147. “Wenn eine Frau den stiel vom Esrog ausbeißt” 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 original 1829 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion, it appears as teḥinah №51, on pp. 73-74. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №52, on pp. 91-92. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №55, on pp. 96-97. “Am Fasttage des neunten Monats. עשׂרה בטבת” 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 original 1829 edition, תחנות Teḥinot ein Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion, it appears as teḥinah №55, on pp. 81-82. In the 1835 and 1842 editions, it appears as teḥinah №57, on pp. 103-104. “[Gebet] Zur Zeit der Niederkunft” 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 №58 on pp. 84-85. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №60 on pp. 106-108. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №63 on pp. 111-113. “Wenn eine Frau aus dem Wochenbette aufsteht” 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 №60 on pp. 86-87. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №62 on pp. 109-110. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №65 on pp. 114-115. “Gebet für eine schwangere Frau” 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 №57 on pp. 83-84. In the 1835 edition, it appears as teḥinah №59 on p. 106. In the 1842 edition, it appears as teḥinah №62 on pp. 111. “Gebet einer schwangern Frau, an הושענא רבה, nachdem sie den Segen über die Etrog-Frucht gesprochen.” was translated/adapted by Meïr haLevi Letteris and published in תָּחֲנוּנֵי בַּת יְהוּדָה (Taḥnunei bat Yehudah): Andachtsbuch für Israelitische Frauenzimmer (2nd edition, 1852), pp. 41-42. In 1852, this teḥinah was translated into English (with a short prayer added for children) by Miriam Wertheimer under the title “Prayer for a woman who is about to become a mother, after the benediction of the citron” in Devotional Exercises for the Use of Jewish Women on Public and Domestic Occasions (1852), pp. 52-54. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, the pitom of the etrog, תחינות teḥinot Contributor(s): A prayer for a pregnant woman anticipating childbirth in the 19th century. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Bohemian Jewry, childbirth, first person, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, pregnancy, תחינות teḥinot, Teḥinot in German Contributor(s): Fanny Neuda’s teḥinah for women experiencing difficulty conceiving children. Categories: Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Bohemian Jewry, conception, fertility, first person, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, pregnancy, תחינות teḥinot, Teḥinot in German Contributor(s):
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