 Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: “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. . . .  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: 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  Contributor(s):  Categories:  Tags: 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. . . . |