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Teḥinah upon tearing off the pitom of the etrog on Hoshana Rabba, from the Tsenah Ur’enah (1622)

This is Dr. Morris Faierstein’s transcription and translation of one of the earliest teḥinot from the earliest surviving edition of the Tsenah u-Re’enah (Basel/Hanau 1622) as found in his article “The Earliest Published Yiddish Tehinnot (1590–1609)” in Hebrew Union College Annual, 2020, Vol. 91 (2020). The transcription of the Yiddish sourcetext is found on page 206 and the English translation is found on page 187. The translation is shared under the libre Open Access license (Creative Commons Attribution) provided for the critical translation of the text in Ze’enah U-Re’enah: A Critical Translation into English (Volume 96 in the series Studia Judaica, ed. Morris M. Faierstein; De Gruyter 2017). . . .

Categories: Hoshana Rabba

Tags: 17th century C.E., 55th century A.M., the pitom of the etrog, תחינות teḥinot, Yiddish vernacular prayer

Contributor(s): Unknown Author(s), Morris M. Faierstein (translation) and Yaaqov ben Yitsḥaq Ashkenazi

Wenn eine Frau den stiel vom Esrog ausbeißt | When a woman bites the pitom from the etrog, by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1829)

“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. . . .

Categories: Hoshana Rabba, Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth

Tags: 19th century C.E., 56th century A.M., German Jewry, German vernacular prayer, Jewish Women's Prayers, the pitom of the etrog, תחינות teḥinot

Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Yehoshua Heshil Miro

Gebet einer schwangern Frau, an הושענא רבה, nachdem sie den Segen über die Etrog-Frucht gesprochen | Prayer of a pregnant woman on Hoshana Rabbah after saying the blessing over the etrog fruit, a teḥinah by Meïr Letteris (1852)

“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: Hoshana Rabba, Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth

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): Miriam Wertheimer (translation), Meïr haLevi Letteris and Aharon N. Varady (transcription)

תְּחִנָה זאָגט מען װען מען בּײַסט אָפּ דעם פִּטוּם פוּן דעם אֶתְרוֹג | Tkhine for when biting the pitom from the etrog (Siddur Ḳorban Minḥah, 1861)

A tkhine for when biting the pitom from the etrog . . .

Categories: Hoshana Rabba, Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth

Tags: 19th century C.E., 57th century A.M., fertility, Jewish Women's Prayers, the pitom of the etrog, pregnancy, סגולות segulot, תחינות teḥinot, תחינות tkhines, Yiddish vernacular prayer

Contributor(s): Emily Kesselman (art & transcription), Baruch Jean Thaler and Unknown Author(s)