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Jewish Women's Prayers —⟶ tag: Jewish Women's Prayers Sorted Chronologically (old to new). Sort most recent first? A tkhine in the event of an epidemic. . . . Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., Epidemic, Jewish Women's Prayers, תחינות teḥinot, תחינות tkhines, Yiddish vernacular prayer Contributor(s): A prayer for lifegiving sustenance. . . . A morning prayer for young girls composed in Magyar and published in 1930, with English translation. . . . Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., children's prayers, Hungarian Jewry, Jewish Women's Prayers, Magyar vernacular prayer Contributor(s): “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). . . . Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., אז ישיר Az Yashir, English vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, Miriam, Opening Prayers, Openers, Prayers as poems, תפילות קודם התפילה Prayers before Praying, Prayers for Praying Contributor(s): A supplication of a woman cutting her hair as an act of tsanua, per a contemporary custom in many Ḥaredi communities. . . . Categories: Tags: 20th century C.E., 58th century A.M., hair, hair-cutting, Jewish Women's Prayers, Needing citation references, תחינות teḥinot Contributor(s): “Prayer Concerning Jewish Women murdered by their Partners” by Yael Levine was originally composed in 2001 and published in collections of prayers and elsewhere. The English translation, by the author, was first prepared in 2017. . . . Categories: Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., domestic violence, Jewish women, Jewish Women's Prayers, women Contributor(s): 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. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): A statement by the Bat Mitsvah after her first aliyah. . . . “Prayer for Women Suffering From Domestic Violence” by Yael Levine, was first published on the website of Kipa on 13 Marḥeshvan 5778 (2 November 2017). The English translation, by the author, was first published in Stand By Me: Hebrew Prayers for All Believers, Volume 1, edited by Shira Schechter and Rabbi Tuly Weisz, (Israel365: 2024), pp. 58-61. . . . A prayer for the safety and well-being of women who are victims of violence, and especially domestic violence. . . . Categories: Tags: Contributor(s): | ||
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