Contributor(s): Isaac Gantwerk Mayer
Categories:  Learning, Study, and School, Travel, Separation | Tags:  North America, children, students, parents, teḥinot, supplications, college, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M. 
A prayer for the safety and success of those leaving home to go off to college and university. When children go off to college, parents can feel worried about the future of their children. Empty-nest syndrome can set in and spiritual guidance is often needed. This prayer uses the idioms of Biblical and siddur language to create a text for parents who worry about their children’s future as they head off on their own. It could be said 49 days after Tekufat Tammuz in the diaspora (August 28 or 29 after a leap year – approximately the time when college terms begin in the US) or on the first Saturday after Shmini Atzeret ba’aretz (approximately when college terms begin in Israel) . . .
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Unknown Author(s)
Categories: Shavuot, Rosh Ḥodesh Sivan | Tags: 19th century C.E., talmud torah, tkhines, children, new moon, shabbat mevorkhim, martyrdom, teḥinot, Ashkenaz, 57th century A.M., paraliturgical teḥinot, Jewish Women's Prayers, Yiddish vernacular prayer, Leah, paraliturgical birkat haḥodesh, Mazal Teomim, Gemini, Twins, Zevulun, Torah as intercessor, in the merit of martyrs, Needing Proofreading, Needing Attribution 
To the best of my ability, this is a faithful transcription of the תְּחִנָה לְשַׁבָּת מְבָרְכִים רֹאשׁ חוֺדֶשׁ סִיוָן (“Tkhine for Shabbat Mevorkhim Rosh Ḥodesh Sivan”) which appeared in תחנות מקרא קודש (Teḥinot Miqra Qodesh, Widow and Brothers Romm, Vilna 1877). English translation adapted slightly from Techinas: A Voice from the Heart “As Only A Woman Can Pray” by Rivka Zakutinsky (Aura Press, 1992). –A.N. Varady . . .
This is a faithful transcription of the א תְּחִנָה פאר א שטיף מוטער (“A Tkhine for a Stepmother”) which first appeared in ש״ס תחנה חדשה (Shas Tkhine Ḥadasha), a collection of tkhines published by Ben-Zion Alfes in Vilna, 1922. . . .
This is a faithful transcription of the תְּחִנָּה מִגְדַּל הַשֵּׁן (“Tkhine for a Baby’s First Tooth”) which first appeared in ש״ס תחנה חדשה (Shas Tkhine Ḥaḥadasha), a collection of tkhines published by Ben-Zion Alfes in Vilna, 1922. . . .
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Tracy Guren Klirs (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
Categories: Learning, Study, and School, Child care | Tags: 20th century C.E., tkhines, children, school, teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, Yiddish vernacular prayer, religious school, kheyder, Needing Source Images, Needing Attribution 
“Tkine for a Mother Who Leads Her Child to Kheyder” by an unknown author is a faithful transcription of the tkhine published in Rokhl m’vakoh al boneho (Raḥel Weeps for her Children), Vilna, 1910. I have transcribed it without any changes from The Merit of Our Mothers בזכות אמהות A Bilingual Anthology of Jewish Women’s Prayers, compiled by Rabbi Tracy Guren Klirs, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1992. shgiyot mi yavin, ministarot nakeni. Please offer a translation of this tkhine in the comments. . . .
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Tracy Guren Klirs (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
Categories: Learning, Study, and School, Child care | Tags: 20th century C.E., tkhines, children, school, first experiences, teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, Yiddish vernacular prayer, religious school, kheyder, Prayers of Parental Guardians, Needing Translation, Needing Source Images, Needing Attribution
“Tkine for a Mother Who Leads Her Child to Kheyder” by an unknown author is a faithful transcription of the tkhine published in Rokhl m’vakoh al boneho (Raḥel Weeps for her Children), Vilna, 1910. I have transcribed it without any changes from The Merit of Our Mothers בזכות אמהות A Bilingual Anthology of Jewish Women’s Prayers, compiled by Rabbi Tracy Guren Klirs, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press, 1992. shgiyot mi yavin, ministarot nakeni. Please offer a translation of this tkhine in the comments. . . .
God of all people’s souls: Hasten, we pray, to rescue the hundreds of Nigerian young girls, innocent students who, in horrific cruelty, were abducted from their houses and schools by inhumane criminals intending to sell them into slavery and torture them. . . .
Contributor(s): Eli Steier
Categories: Learning, Study, and School | Tags: children, togetherness, אחדות, public performance, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Prayers of Jewish Educators, Lehrer, Teacher, professional intention 
I wrote this kavvanah a few years ago. At that time I lived in Ithaca, NY. I was a substitute teacher in the Ithaca Central School District. There was a community event at Fall Creek Elementary school, and the way families, faculty, students, and people from the area came together inspired the poem. . . .
Contributor(s): Bradley Burston
Categories: Justice and Peace, War, Conflicts over Sovereignty and Dispossession | Tags: English Translation, Medinat Yisrael, war, Palestine, Gaza, children, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Operation Cast Lead, Gaza War (2008–09), Needing Vocalization 
Lord who is the creator of all children, hear our prayer this accursed day. God whom we call Blessed, turn your face to these, the children of Gaza, that they may know your blessings, and your shelter, that they may know light and warmth, where there is now only blackness and smoke, and a cold which cuts and clenches the skin. . . .
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