תחנה פאר אמוטער װאס פירט אקינד אין חדר | Tkhine for a Mother Leading their Child to Religious School (1910)

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Date: 2016-07-06

Last Updated: 2025-02-18

Categories: Child care, Learning, Study, and School

Tags: 20th century C.E., 57th century A.M., children, Jewish Women's Prayers, kheyder, religious school, school, Yiddish vernacular prayer, תחינות teḥinot, תחינות tkhines, Needing Source Images, Needing Attribution

Excerpt: "Tkine for a Mother Who Leads Her Child to Kheyder" by an unknown author is a faithful transcription of the tkhine published in Rokhl m'vakoh al boneho (Raḥel 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. Please offer a translation of this tkhine in the comments. . . .

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Source (Yiddish)	Translation (English)
בּוֺרֵא הָעוֺלָמוֺת! מִיט גרױס חָכְמָה האָסטוּ בּעשאפין דיא װעלט װיא מיר װיסין, אונ דעם יֵצֶר הָרָע ער זאָל מאכען זינדיג דעם מענשין, פאר אַ רְפוּאָה האָסטוּ בּעשאפען די הײליגע תּוֺרָה, דארום האָבּין מיר אונזר זאָהן אָפּגעגעבּין צו לערנען תּוֺרָה,	Creator of the worlds! We know that you have created the world with great wisdom. You also created the predatory desire (yetser hora) which causes a person to transgress and, to remedy this, you created the holy Torah. Therefore we have urged our child to dedicate themselves to the study of Torah.
בּעט איך דיר גאָט, שטארק זײַן הארץ ער זאָל פלײַסיג לערנען, ער זאָל היטען דײַנע מִצְוֺת אונ אונזערע עֵצוֺת, פיהר אים בְּדֶרֶךְ הַתּוֺרָה וְהַמִצְוָה, מיר זאָלען דער לעבּין זעהן, אז ער װעט זײַן אגרױסער מופלֶג בַּתּוֺרָה אונ אײַן ערליכער יוּד אָמֵן׃	I beseech You, God, strengthen their heart so that they may learn with ease, that they may heed your mitsvos and our advice. Lead them in the path of Torah and mitsvot. May we live to see them become a great Torah scholar and an honorable Jew. Amen.

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“Tkine for a Mother Who Leads Her Child to Kheyder” by an unknown author is a faithful transcription of the tkhine published in רחל מבכה על בניה Rokhl m’vakeh al boneho (Rokhl Weeps for her Children), Vilna, 1910. I have faithfully transcribed the original 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.

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Contributor: Unknown Author(s)

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  Name: Tracy Guren Klirs (translation)
  Bio: Rabbi Tracy Guren Klirs received her B.A. in Yiddish literature at the University of Chicago and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1977. She was ordained as a rabbi from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati in 1984. Her book, The Merit of Our Mothers: A Bilingual Anthology of Jewish Women’s Prayers, was published by HUC Press in 1992. She serves as the rabbi of Temple Kol Tikvah in Davidson, North Carolina.
  Website: https://www.facebook.com/RabbiKlirs
  Profile Link: https://opensiddur.org/profile/tracy-guren-klirs
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  Name: Unknown Author(s)
  Bio: Sometimes the best we can do in attributing a historical work is to indicate the period and place it was written, the first prayer book it may have been printed in, or the archival collection in which the manuscript was found. We invite the public to help to attribute all works to their original composers. If you know something not mentioned in the commentary offered, please leave a comment or contact us.
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  Name: Aharon N. Varady (transcription)
  Bio: Aharon Varady (M.A.J.Ed./JTSA Davidson) is a volunteer transcriber for the Open Siddur Project. If you find any mistakes in his transcriptions, please let him know. Shgiyot mi yavin; Ministarot naqeni שְׁגִיאוֹת מִי־יָבִין; מִנִּסְתָּרוֹת נַקֵּנִי "Who can know all one's flaws? From hidden errors, correct me" (Psalms 19:13). If you'd like to directly support his work, please consider donating via his Patreon account. (Varady also translates prayers and contributes his own original work besides serving as the primary shammes of the Open Siddur Project and its website, opensiddur.org.)
  Website: https://aharon.varady.net
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