A compilation of Jewish women’s prayers in Yiddish published in Vilna in 1910, with prayers attributed to Rokhl Esther bat Aviḥayil, a Jewish woman living in Jerusalem. . . .
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Contributor(s): Rokhl Esther bat Aviḥayil and Unknown Author(s)
Categories:  Anthologies of Women's Supplications & Paraliturgical Prayers | Tags:  20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, Yiddish vernacular prayer
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Wikisource Contributors (proofreading), Julia Watts Belser (translation), Moritz Mayer (translation) and Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda
Categories: Shemini Atseret (and Simḥat Torah) | Tags: 19th century C.E., teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, Teḥinot in German, German vernacular prayer, Bohemian Jewry 
This is Fanny Neuda’s prayer “on Simḥat Torah,” faithfully transcribed and proofread with the help of German Wikisource contributors from Fanny Neuda’s Stunden Der Andacht (1855), p. 66-67. We are happy to share your translation of Neuda’s tkhines in any language. The translation provided here was made by Julia Watts Belser for Hours of Devotion: Fanny Neuda’s Book of Prayers for Jewish Women (ed. Dinah Berland, Schocken 2007), and set here for the first time side-by-side with Neuda’s original German. . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Unknown Author(s)
Categories: Iyyar | Tags: 19th century C.E., Miriam, tkhines, new moon, shabbat mevorkhim, teḥinot, 57th century A.M., paraliturgical teḥinot, Jewish Women's Prayers, Yiddish vernacular prayer, Leah, paraliturgical birkat haḥodesh, the second month, Taurus, Mazal Shor, Shevet Issachar, In the merit of Miriam, Miriam's well, Manna 
To the best of my ability, this is a faithful transcription of the תְּחִנָה לְשַׁבָּת מְבָרְכִים רֹאשׁ חוֺדֶשׁ אִיָיר (“Tkhine for Shabbat Mevorkhim Rosh Ḥodesh Iyyar”) 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 . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda, Wikisource Contributors (proofreading) and Julia Watts Belser (translation)
Categories: ☽ Prayers arranged by the Moon, Nisan, Iyyar, Sivan, Tamuz, Av, Elul, Tishrei, Marḥeshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shvat, Adar | Tags: 19th century C.E., tkhines, teḥinot, 57th century A.M., paraliturgical teḥinot, Jewish Women's Prayers, Teḥinot in German, German vernacular prayer, Bohemian Jewry 
This is Prayer for the Shabbat preceding the New Moon (Shabbat Mevorkhim) included by Fanny Schmiedl Neuda in her collection of teḥinot in vernacular German, Stunden der Andacht (1855). Fanny Neuda likely either composed or translated this teḥinah into German (from Yiddish) while performing in the capacity of firzogerin (precentress) of the weibershul (women’s gallery) in her husband’s synagogue in Loštice, Bohemia. . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda, Moritz Mayer (translation) and Wikisource Contributors (proofreading)
Categories: Rosh Ḥodesh, ☽ Prayers arranged by the Moon, Nisan, Iyyar, Sivan, Tamuz, Av, Elul, Tishrei, Marḥeshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shvat, Adar | Tags: 19th century C.E., tkhines, teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, Teḥinot in German, German vernacular prayer, Bohemian Jewry 
This is the prayer for Rosh Ḥodesh (the day of the New Moon, and first day of the month in the Jewish calendar) included by Fanny Schmiedl Neuda in her collection of teḥinot in vernacular German, Stunden der Andacht (1855). Fanny Neuda likely either composed or translated this teḥinah into German (from Yiddish) while performing in the capacity of firzogerin (precentress) of the weibershul (women’s gallery) in her husband’s synagogue in Loštice, Bohemia. The translation in English was made by Moritz Mayer in his abridged translation of Neuda’s collection, Hours of Devotion (1866). . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Unknown Author(s)
Categories: Tsom Gedalyah | Tags: 19th century C.E., teḥinot, 56th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, Teḥinot in German, German vernacular prayer, assassination, Judeo-German, Needing Translation 
A teḥinah written in Judeo-German for the Fast of Gedalyah on the day after Rosh Hashanah. . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Wikisource Contributors (proofreading), Julia Watts Belser (translation) and Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda
Categories: Shemini Atseret (and Simḥat Torah), Sukkot | Tags: 19th century C.E., teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, Teḥinot in German, German vernacular prayer, Bohemian Jewry 
This is Fanny Neuda’s “Prayer for Shemini Atseret,” faithfully transcribed and proofread with the help of German Wikisource contributors from Fanny Neuda’s Stunden Der Andacht (1855), p. 66. . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Sarah Rivkah Raḥel Leah Horowitz
Categories: Nisan, Iyyar, Sivan, Morning Torah Reading, Tamuz, Av, Elul, Tishrei, Marḥeshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shvat, Adar | Tags: tkhines, shabbat mevorkhim, teḥinot, Ashkenaz, 56th century A.M., paraliturgical teḥinot, Jewish Women's Prayers, 18th Century C.E., Yiddish vernacular prayer, paraliturgical birkat haḥodesh, Paraliturgical Prayer for the New Month, Needing Proofreading, Needing Attribution 
The Teḥina for the blessing of the new moon is said each Shabbat Mevorkhim, addition to the specific Teḥinah for that month. The prayer is recited when the Aron HaKodesh is opened, signifying the opening of the Heavenly gates of mercy (an especially propitious time to pray for health, livelihood, and all good). . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Unknown Author(s)
Categories: Shavuot, 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 . . . Contributor(s): Ruth H. Sohn
Categories: 7th Day of Pesaḥ, Psukei D'zimrah/Zemirot | Tags: 20th century C.E., Petiḥot, 58th century A.M., Az Yashir, Opening Prayers, Jewish Women's Prayers, Prayers for Praying, Prayers as poems, English vernacular prayer, Prayers before Prayer 
“The Song of Miriam” by Rabbi Ruth Sohn was first published as “I Shall Sing to the Lord a New Song,” in Kol Haneshamah: Shabbat Vehagim, Reconstructionist Prayerbook, 1989, 1995 Second Edition. Reconstructionist Press, pp. 768-769. (This poem was also published in several haggadot and other books and set to music by several composers in the U.S. and Israel.) Rabbi Sohn wrote the poem in 1981 as a rabbinical student after immersing herself in the Torah verses and the traditional midrashim about Miriam, and after writing a longer modern midrash about Miriam. Part of this modern midrash was published as “Journeys,” in All the Women Followed Her, ed. Rebecca Schwartz (Rikudei Miriam Press, 2001). . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Unknown Author(s)
Categories: Tamuz | Tags: 19th century C.E., tkhines, new moon, shabbat mevorkhim, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, Yiddish vernacular prayer, in the merit of Raḥel, childlessness, self-discipline, in the merit of Yosef, Needing Proofreading, Needing Attribution 
This is a faithful transcription of the תְּחִנָה לְשַׁבָּת מְבָרְכִים רֹאשׁ חוֺדֶשׁ תַּמוּז (“Tkhine for Shabbat Mevorkhim Rosh Ḥodesh Tamuz”) which appeared in תחנות מקרא קודש (Teḥinot Miqra Qodesh, Rom Brothers, 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 . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Refoyl Finkl (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
Categories: On Gender | Tags: 20th century C.E., tkhines, bitul neshama, gender roles, dominion, anti-feminist, teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, Yiddish vernacular prayer, Problematic prayers 
The author of this tkhine intended for women to begin their morning devotional reading of prayers by first accepting patriarchal dominion. Women compensate for their inherent weakness and gain their honor only through the established gender roles assigned to them. The placement of this tkhine at the beginning of the Shas Tkhine Rav Peninim, a popular collection of women’s tkhines published in 1916 (during the ascent of women’s suffrage in the U.S.), suggests that it was written as a prescriptive polemic to influence pious Jewish women to reject advancing feminist ideas. . . . 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. . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Seril Rappaport and Tracy Guren Klirs (translation)
Categories: Rosh Hashanah, Rosh haShanah for the Olam (Cosmos) | Tags: shofar, tkhines, repentance, teḥinot, 56th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, 18th Century C.E., Yiddish vernacular prayer, Imahot as Advocates, Angels as advocates 
“Tkhine of the Matriarchs for the Blowing of the Shofar” by Rebbetsin Seril Rappaport is a faithful transcription of her tkhine included in “תחנה אמהות מן ראש חודש אלול” (Tkhine of the Matriarchs for the New Moon of Elul) published in Vilna, 1874, as re-published in 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. . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Tracy Guren Klirs (translation) and Seril Rappaport
Categories: Rosh Hashanah, Rosh haShanah for the Olam (Cosmos), Tishrei | Tags: tkhines, repentance, yamim noraim, days of awe, teḥinot, 56th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, 18th Century C.E., Yiddish vernacular prayer 
“Tkhine of the Matriarchs for the New Moon of Tishrei [Rosh Hashanah]” by Rebbetsin Seril Rappaport is a faithful transcription of her tkhine included in “תחנה אמהות מן ראש חודש אלול” (Tkhine of the Matriarchs for the New Moon of Elul) published in Vilna, 1874, as re-published in 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. . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Seril Rappaport and Tracy Guren Klirs (translation)
Categories: Elul | Tags: tkhines, Elul Zman, repentance, 56th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, 18th Century C.E., Yiddish vernacular prayer 
“Tkhine of the Matriarchs for the New Moon of Elul” by Rebbetsin Seril Rappaport is a faithful transcription of her tkhine published in Vilna, 1874, as re-published in 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. . . . Contributor(s): Baruch Jean Thaler (translation), Unknown Author(s) and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
Categories: Marriage | Tags: 20th century C.E., wedding, tkhines, gender roles, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, Yiddish vernacular prayer, Needing Source Images, Needing Attribution 
“A Tkhine for a Kaleh before the Khupe” by an unknown author is a faithful transcription of the version published in Rokhl m’vakoh al boneho (Rokhel 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. . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Refoyl Finkl (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
Categories: Well-being, health, and caregiving, Repenting, Resetting, and Forgiveness | Tags: 19th century C.E., tkhines, 56th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, Yiddish vernacular prayer 
The “Tkhine of the Gate of Tears” by an unknown author presented here derives from the Vilna, 1848 edition. 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. If you can scan an image of the page from the edition this was copied from, please share it with us. . . . Contributor(s): the Hierophant
Categories: Anthologies of Women's Supplications & Paraliturgical Prayers | Tags: tkhines, French Jewry, Jewish Women's Prayers, Needing Transcription, Needing Decompilation 
Join us in creating a faithful digital transcription of אמרי לב Prières D’un Cœur Israélite (Arnaud Aron and Jonas Ennery, 1848). After transcription and proofreading, this new digital edition will need to be encoded in TEI XML and archived in the Open Siddur database. The edition will be shared under a Creative Commons Zero (CC0) Public Domain dedication. . . . Contributor(s): חיים היימס-עזרא and Miri Landau (translation)
Categories: Bat/Bar Mitsvah | Tags: Israel, kriyat hatorah, Bat Mitsvah, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, Masorti 
A statement by the Bat Mitsvah after her first aliyah. . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Isaac Leeser (translation), Jonas Ennery and Arnaud Aron
Categories: Anthologies of Women's Supplications & Paraliturgical Prayers | Tags: 19th century C.E., transcription, Anglo-Jewish, teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, Needing Decompilation, Needing Proofreading 
General public forms of prayer may not always be adapted to the peculiar exigencies of every mind; the compilers of this work have therefore striven to supply in some measure this spiritual need, by meditations and prayers suited to every situation and occasion in life; and it has been the humble yet anxious endeavour of the translator to preserve the spirit of the original in its English garb. . . . Contributor(s): Jacob Freund and Enrico Segre
Categories: Anthologies of Women's Supplications & Paraliturgical Prayers | Tags: Deutsch, German, Liberal, Reform Movement, Jewish Women's Prayers 
After the popular reception among German speaking Jewry of Fanny Neuda’s Stunden Der Andacht (1855), additional sifrei teḥinnot, collections of prayers composed in the vernacular for women, were published in German. One of them, Hanna. Gebet- und Andachtsbuch für israelitische Frauen und Mädchen, published in 1867, was compiled with teḥinnot composed by the leading luminaries of Liberal Judaism in Breslau, Silesia: Jacob Freund (1827-1877), Rabbi Abraham Geiger (1810-1874), and Rabbi Moritz Güdemann (1835-1918), Manuel Joël (1826-1890), and Moritz Abraham Levy (1817-1872). The title of the collection is a direct reference to the biblical figure, Ḥanna whose petitionary prayer for a child was answered with the birth of her son, the prophet Shmuel. . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda
Categories: Anthologies of Women's Supplications & Paraliturgical Prayers | Tags: Deutsch, German, transcription, proofreading, Jewish Women's Prayers, Needing Decompilation 
I have the great pleasure to be sharing a crowdsourced labor of love, the first book of prayers that the Open Siddur Project has completely proofread on Wikisource: Stunden Der Andacht (Hours of Devotion, 1855) by Fanny Schmiedl Neuda. I initially prepared the transcription from the 145-page, 1858 edition of Stunden Der Andacht with Tesseract-OCR and a scan of the book made by Google Books. Many thanks to Open Siddur Project contributor and volunteer, Chajm Guski, for helping to upload the transcription to the German Wikisource site. Many thanks go to the untold numbers of volunteer proofreaders, both veteran Wikisource volunteers as well as the many folk who came to proofread the text after seeing a tweet, facebook status update, or reading an email asking for German fluent readers for help. . . . Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Wikisource Contributors (proofreading), Julia Watts Belser (translation) and Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda
Categories: Sukkot | Tags: 19th century C.E., teḥinot, 57th century A.M., paraliturgical teḥinot, Jewish Women's Prayers, Teḥinot in German, German vernacular prayer, Bohemian Jewry 
Herr des Weltalls, reich geschmückt mit deinen Gaben und Segnungen hast du die Natur. Das Thal mit seinem üppigen Grün, der Berg mit seinem Kranz von Wäldern, das Gefilde mit seiner lachenden Frucht ist ein Erzeugnis; deiner Gnade, zum Segen deiner Menschenkinder, zur Nahrung ihres Leibes, zur Stillung ihrer Bedürfnisse, zur Ergötzung ihres Auges, zum Balsam ihrer Wunden; und kein Blättchen ist so klein, kein Grashalm so niedrig in dem weiten Reiche der Natur, daß es nicht wohlthuende heilsame Kräfte für uns enthielte. . . . Contributor(s): Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda and Julia Watts Belser (translation)
Categories: Sukkot | Tags: 19th century C.E., teḥinot, 57th century A.M., paraliturgical teḥinot, Jewish Women's Prayers, Teḥinot in German, German vernacular prayer, Bohemian Jewry 
As part of our ongoing project creating a new digital edition of Fanny Neuda’s collection of tkhines in German, Stunden Der Andacht (1855), we are setting her prayers (for the first time ever) side by side with that of her work’s first English translation. . . . Contributor(s): Moritz Mayer (translation), Fanny Schmiedl-Neuda and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
Categories: Anthologies of Women's Supplications & Paraliturgical Prayers | Tags: English Translation, Jewish Women's Prayers 
Stunden Der Andacht, Fanny Neuda (nèe Schmiedl)’s popular collection of prayers written in German and published in Prague in 1855 was already in its fifth printing a decade later when Rabbi Moritz Mayer published his English translation, Hours of Devotion (1866) in New York. Neuda’s collection of Jewish prayers is unique by virtue of its being possibly the first to authored by a Jewish woman. . . . Contributor(s): Ethan Tucker
Categories: Essays, Documents, Art, and Craft, Halakhah | Tags: localization, Mechon Hadar, Jewish Women's Prayers 
Language is simultaneously a portal and a barrier to prayer. Jews have prayed in Hebrew for millennia, yet our oldest sources also speak of prayer in other languages. Come explore the history of the language of prayer, how our linguistic preferences define what prayer is about, and how we might approach this issue today. . . . Contributor(s): Elie Kaunfer and Lisa Exler
Categories: Brit Milah & Simḥat Bat | Tags: ceremony, infant, parent, naming, simḥat bat, Mechon Hadar, Jewish Women's Prayers 
In place of the blood of the slaughtered bulls from the covenantal ceremony in Exodus, we looked for another substance to effect the covenant ceremony. Amalya was born right after Shavuot, on which we have a tradition to eat dairy. In fact, milk itself is associated with the acceptance of Torah, as described in the following Midrash which quotes a verse from Song of Songs (4:11): “Sweetness drops from your lips, O bride; honey and milk are under your tongue and the scent of your robes is like the scent of Lebanon.” . . . |
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