 Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for a pregnant woman that she not suffer a miscarriage. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for a pregnant woman whose childbirth is immanent. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: A prayer for a pregnant woman approaching her childbirth. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: Based upon the Seder Teḥinot al Bet Almin, by Rabbi Yaaqov Sinna (ca. 1615), a collection of teḥinot for when visiting the graves of loved ones, as well as additional prayers for sick relatives and for women approaching childbirth. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: “Gebet einer Shwangern (Prayer for a pregnant woman)” was first published in Pereẓ (Peter) Beer’s Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion (1815), as teḥinah №60 on pp. 172-173 where it was rendered in Judeo-German. The German rendering transcribed above follows teḥinah №60 in Henry Frank’s 1839 edition on pp. 147-148. A variation can also be found in Beer’s 1843 edition as teḥinah №61 on p. 146-147. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: “[Gebet] In den letzten Monaten der Schwangerschaft (Prayer in the last months of pregnancy)” was first published in Pereẓ (Peter) Beer’s Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauenzimmer mosaischer Religion (1815), as teḥinah №61 on pp. 173-175 where it was rendered in Judeo-German. The German rendering transcribed above follows teḥinah №61 in Henry Frank’s 1839 edition on pp. 148-150. A variation can also be found in Beer’s 1843 edition as teḥinah №62 on p. 147-149. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: infants, Angels of Healing, Angelic Protection, prayers concerning children, apotropaic prayers of protection, entering magical territory, prayers for pregnant women, אליהו הנביא Eliyahu haNavi, prophylactic, epical narrative as ward, קמעות ḳame'ot, historiola 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. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: Angels, geonic period, prophylactic, origin stories, קמעות ḳame'ot, Angels of Healing, infants, Angelic Protection, entering magical territory, prayers for pregnant women, epical narrative as ward, historiola The origin story of Lilith as told in the Alphabet of ben Sira. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: apotropaic prayers of protection, entering magical territory, Angels, Late Antiquity, prayers for pregnant women, amulet bowls, prophylactic, epical narrative as ward, קמעות ḳame'ot, cold iron, infants, iron in folklore, Angelic Protection, historiola, prayers concerning children, 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. . . . |