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Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth

Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth

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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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).

Categories:

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)

[Gebet] Vor der Entbindung | [Prayer] Before the Childbirth, by Fanny Neuda (1855)

A prayer for a pregnant woman anticipating childbirth in the 19th century.

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Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth

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):

Julia Watts Belser (translation), Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

In Kinderloser Ehe | [Prayer for a Woman] In a Childless Marriage, by Fanny Neuda (1855)

Fanny Neuda’s teḥinah for women experiencing difficulty conceiving children.

Categories:

Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth

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):

Julia Watts Belser (translation), Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda and Moritz Mayer (translation)

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