This formulation of the Birkat Yeladim (Blessing of the Children) maintains a connection with tradition and serves to degender the blessing by calling upon quoted, mixed gender texts which have merit for children of any gender. . . .
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Contributor(s): Yonah Bromberg Gaber
Shared on ד׳ במרחשון ה׳תשפ״א (2020-10-22) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 International free-culture license Categories:  Erev Shabbat, Transgender Day of Visibility (March 31)
Tags:  Parents blessing children, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., prayers concerning children, Prayers for Children, genderqueer, nonbinary, birkat yeladim
Contributor(s): Menachem Creditor
Shared on י״ב באלול ה׳תש״פ (2020-09-01) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Learning, Study, and School
Tags: 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., prayers concerning children, English vernacular prayer, Prayers for students, 2020 coronavirus pandemic 
A prayer for children on the first day of a new year of school. . . . 
Contributor(s): Alona Lisitsa
Shared on י״ד באלול ה׳תש״פ (2020-09-03) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Learning, Study, and School
Tags: children, Parents blessing children, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., prayers concerning children, Prayers for Children, Prayers for students, Needing Translation (into English), Israel Movement for Reform and Progressive Judaism 
A prayer for children at the onset of the school year. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Moritz Mayer
Shared on ל׳ בסיון ה׳תש״פ (2020-06-21) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Mourning
Tags: 19th century C.E., תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, prayers concerning children, English vernacular prayer, cemetery prayers 
A prayer for a woman mounrning at the grave of her child. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Marcus Heinrich Bresslau
Shared on כ״ג בסיון ה׳תש״פ (2020-06-15) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Mourning
Tags: 19th century C.E., תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, prayers concerning children, English vernacular prayer, cemetery prayers 
A prayer of a mother grieving over the death of her child. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on ט״ו בכסלו ה׳תשפ״א (2020-11-30) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Incantations & Amulets, Home, Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth, Theurgy
Tags: Angels, Late Antiquity, prophylactic, קמעות ḳame'ot, infants, Angelic Protection, prayers concerning children, apotropaic prayers of protection, entering magical territory, prayers for pregnant women, amulet bowls, epical narrative as ward, cold iron, iron in folklore, historiola, Angels of Healing 
A very old tale told for the protection of pregnant women and their infant children as found in amulets from late Antiquity. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Moritz Mayer
Shared on ל׳ בסיון ה׳תש״פ (2020-06-22) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Zero (CC 0) Universal license a Public Domain dedication Categories: Well-being, health, and caregiving
Tags: 19th century C.E., תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, infants, prayers concerning children, childhood illness, English vernacular prayer, Prayers for Children, Prayers of Parental Guardians 
A mother’s prayer for an ill infant or child. . . . 
Contributor(s): Elie Kaunfer and Lisa Exler
Shared on כ״א בסיון ה׳תש״ע (2010-06-02) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Brit Milah & Simḥat Bat
Tags: ceremony, infant, parent, naming, שמחת בת simḥat bat, Mechon Hadar, Parents blessing children, dairy foods, soporifics, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., prayers concerning children, Prayers for Children, Torah as milk, שבועות Shavuot
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.” . . . שבחי המשפחה לבת המצווה | A Prayer in Honor of a Bat mitsvah from her Family, by Dr. Chaim Hames-Ezra
Contributor(s): חיים היימס-עזרא, Refoyl Finkl (translation) and Miri Landau (translation)
Shared on י״ב באייר ה׳תשע״ה (2015-04-30) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Bnei (Bar/Bat) Mitsvah & Other Birthday Prayers
Tags: בת מצוה Bat Mitsvah, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., prayers concerning children, Prayers of Parental Guardians, ישראל Yisrael 
A prayer for a ritual of blessing of a bat mitsvah by her family. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Baruch Jean Thaler (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on כ״ט בסיון ה׳תשע״ו (2016-07-04) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Child care
Tags: 20th century C.E., תחינות tkhines, תחינות teḥinot, 57th century A.M., Yiddish vernacular prayer, prayers for mothers, prayers concerning children, child mortality, childhood illness, Prayers of Parental Guardians 
“Women who Have Bad Luck with Children Should Recite this Tkhine” by an unknown author is a faithful transcription of the tkhine 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. If you can translate Yiddish, please help to translate it and share your translation with an Open Content license through this project. . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Office of the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of Great Britain and the Commonwealth
Shared on כ״ו בטבת ה׳תשע״ט (2019-01-03) — under the following terms: Public Domain (17 U.S. Code §105 - Subject matter of copyright: United States Government works) Categories: Child care
Tags: 20th century C.E., United Kingdom, תחינות teḥinot, 58th century A.M., prayers concerning children, Prayers of Parental Guardians, Needing Proofreading 
Prayer of Thanksgiving on the Occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, to Be Recited on Sabbath 22nd May 1954 / 19th Iyyar 5714 after the Prayer of the Queen and the Royal Family (London: 1954, Office of the Chief Rabbi) . . . 
Contributor(s): Aharon N. Varady (translation), Aharon N. Varady (transcription), James Alan Montgomery (translation), Richard Gottheil (transcription) and Unknown Author(s)
Shared on כ״ז באב ה׳תש״פ (2020-08-16) — under the following terms: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license Categories: Incantations & Amulets, Home, Conception, Pregnancy, and Childbirth
Tags: prophylactic, קמעות ḳame'ot, infants, Angelic Protection, prayers concerning children, apotropaic prayers of protection, entering magical territory, prayers for pregnant women, אליהו הנביא Eliyahu haNavi, epical narrative as ward, historiola, Angels of Healing 
An apotropaic ward for the protection of women in their pregnancy and of infant children against an attack from Lilith and her minions, containing the story witnessing her oath to the prophet, Eliyahu along with one variation of her many names. . . . |
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