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Feldmesten or Measuring the Graves, a poem by Alter Abelson (1913)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription) and Alter Abelson

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Yom Kippur

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ḳever mesten, 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., English poetry, memento mori, ABAB rhyming scheme, feldmesten

“Feldmesten or Measuring the Graves” by Alter Abelson, appears in the section “The Modern Period” in The Standard Book of Jewish Verse (Joseph Friedlander and George Alexander Kohut, 1917), pp. 698-699. The poem may have first been published in the 26 September 1913 edition of the Hebrew Standard, p.10. . . .

Gebete, die man an verschiedenen Stellen sagt, wenn man um den Begräbnißplatz herumgeht | Prayers said at various points as you circumambulate the burial ground, a teḥinah by Yehoshua Heshil Miro (1835)

Contributor(s):

Andreas Rusterholz (transcription), Aharon N. Varady (translation) and Yehoshua Heshil Miro

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Rosh haShanah (l’Maaseh Bereshit), Repenting, Resetting, and Forgiveness

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תשובה teshuvah, cemetery prayers, 19th century C.E., memento mori, זמן תשובה Zman teshuvah, feldmesten, תחינות teḥinot, ḳever mesten, 56th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, German vernacular prayer, German Jewry, in the merit of our ancestors

“Gebete, die man an verschiedenen Stellen sagt, wenn man um den Begräbnißplatz herumgeht” was translated/adapted by Yehoshua Heshil Miro and published in his anthology of teḥinot, בית יעקב (Beit Yaaqov) Allgemeines Gebetbuch für gebildete Frauen mosaischer Religion. It first appears in the 1835 edition as teḥinah №103 on pp. 202-207. . . .

תחנה פאר די ליכט מאכין אום ערב יום כפור | Tkhine for Candlemaking on Erev Yom Kippur, by Sarah bat Tovim (ca. early 18th c.)

Contributor(s):

Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Tracy Guren Klirs (translation) and Sarah bat Tovim

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Yom Kippur

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memento mori, erev yom kippur, feldmesten, תחינות tkhines, ḳever mesten, candles, ימים נוראים yamim noraim, תחינות teḥinot, 55th century A.M., Jewish Women's Prayers, 18th Century C.E., Yiddish vernacular prayer

This is the tkhine for candlemaking on erev Yom Kippur as found in Sarah bat Tovim’s Tkhine of Three Gates, likely written by her sometime in the early 18th century. . . .