tagged: pregnancy • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ

This is the Shir haMa’alot for a Woman Giving Birth on Purim (a parody of a birth amulet) by Avraham Menaḥem Mendel Mohr from his Kol Bo l’Purim (1855) transcribed and translated from Aramaic into English by Isaac Gantwerk Mayer. . . .

תחנה אױף קינדער האבין (פאר א אִשָׁה װאָס האָט ניט קײַן קינדער)‏ | Tkhine for Having Children for a Woman who Has No Children (ca. 1840)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription), Norman Tarnor (translation) and Unknown Author(s)

A prayer for a childless woman seeking to conception. . . .

Gebet einer Shwangern | Prayer of a pregnant woman, a teḥinah by Pereẓ Beer (1815)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription) and Pereẓ (Peter) Beer

“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. . . .

[Gebet] in den letzten Monaten der Schwangerschaft | Prayer in the last months of pregnancy, a teḥinah by Pereẓ Beer (1815)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription) and Pereẓ (Peter) Beer

“[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. . . .

A Prayer for a Woman before giving birth, from a Seder Tkhines (ca. 1640-1720)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription) and Unknown Author(s)

A prayer for a pregnant woman anticipating childbirth, from an unidentified volume of the Seder Tkhines (circa 1640-1720). . . .

A Delightful Tkhine for a Pregnant Woman to Say (ca. early 17th c.)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription) and Unknown Author(s)

A prayer of a pregnant woman anticipating childbirth. . . .

A Prayer for a Pregnant Woman to Say when She Wishes for an Easy Labor (ca. early 17th c.)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription) and Unknown Author(s)

A prayer for a pregnant woman anticipating her childbirth. . . .