Prayers Of Jewish Women

Author : Aliza Lavie
Publisher : Random House
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780385526869

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A Jewish Woman's Prayer Book by Aliza Lavie Pdf

A beautiful and moving one-of-a-kind collection that draws from a variety of Jewish traditions, through the ages, to commemorate every occasion and every passage in the cycle of life, including: Special prayers for the Sabbath, holidays, and important dates of the Jewish year Prayers to mark celebratory milestones, such as bat mitzva, marriage, pregnancy, and childbirth Prayers for companionship, love, and fertility Prayers for healing, strength, and personal growth Prayers for daily reflection and thanksgiving Prayers for comfort and understanding in times of tragedy and loss On the eve of Yom Kippur in 2002, Aliza Lavie, a university professor, read an interview with an Israeli woman who had lost both her mother and her baby daughter in a terrorist attack. As Lavie stood in the synagogue later that evening, she searched for comfort for the bereaved woman, for a reminder that she was not alone but part of a great tradition of Jewish women who have responded to unbearable loss with strength and fortitude. Unable to find sufficient solace within the traditional prayer book and inspired by the memory of her own grandmother’s steadfast knowledge and faith, Lavie began researching and compiling prayers written for and by Jewish women. A Jewish Woman’s Prayer Book is the result—a beautiful and moving one-of-a-kind collection that draws from a variety of Jewish traditions, through the ages, to commemorate every occasion and every passage in the cycle of life, from the mundane to the extraordinary. This elegant, inspiring volume includes special prayers for the Sabbath and holidays and important dates of the Jewish year; prayers to mark celebratory milestones, such as bat mitzva, marriage, pregnancy, and childbirth; and prayers for comfort and understanding in times of tragedy and loss. Each prayer is presented in Hebrew and in an English translation, along with fascinating commentary on its origins and allusions. Culled from a wide range of sources, both geographically and historically, this collection testifies that women's prayers were—and continue to be—an inspired expression of personal supplication and desire.

Author : Dinah Berland
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780307486059

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Hours of Devotion by Dinah Berland Pdf

Written in the nineteenth century, rediscovered in the twenty-first, timeless in its wisdom and beauty, Hours of Devotion by Fanny Neuda, (the daughter of a Moravian rabbi), was the first full-length book of Jewish prayers written by a woman for women. In her moving introduction to this volume--the first edition of Neuda’s prayer book to appear in English for more than a century--editor Dinah Berland describes her serendipitous discovery of Hours of Devotion in a Los Angeles used bookstore. She had been estranged from her son for eleven years, and the prayers she found in the book provided immediate comfort, giving her the feeling that someone understood both her pain and her hope. Eventually, these prayers would also lead her back to Jewish study and toward a deeper practice of her Judaism. Originally published in German, Fanny Neuda’s popular prayer book was reprinted more than two dozen times in German and appeared in Yiddish and English editions between 1855 and 1918. Working with a translator, Berland has carefully brought the prayers into modern English and set them into verse to fully realize their poetry. Many of these eighty-eight prayers, as well as Neuda’s own preface and afterword, appear here in English for the first time, opening a window to a Jewish woman’s life in Central Europe during the Enlightenment. Reading “A Daughter’s Prayer for Her Parents,” “On the Approach of Childbirth,” “For a Mother Whose Child Is Abroad,” and the other prayers for both daily and momentous occasions, one cannot help but feel connected to the women who’ve come before. For Berland, Hours of Devotion served as a guide and a testament to the mystery and power of prayer. Fanny Neuda’s remarkable spirit and faith in God, displayed throughout these heartfelt prayers, now offer the same hope of guidance to others.

Author : Tracy G Klirs
Publisher : Hebrew Union College Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1992-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780878201518

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The Merit of Our Mothers by Tracy G Klirs Pdf

For many centuries Jewish prayer was so dominated by its male creators and male readers that the Jewish woman's role in prayer seems to have been all but obliterated. Yet Jewish women have always prayed and, before prayer became standardized into a formal liturgy, Israelite women offered up spontaneous petitions and hymns to God as freely as did men. While they may not have been able to help constitute a minyan, and while many did not know Hebrew or Aramaic, women produced and used material for prayer at home. The Yiddish tkhines had its origin in a form of supplicatory prayer in the Talmud, whose original intent was to allow for individual private devotion during the standard prayer service. The private Yiddish prayers and devotions for Jewish women continued to use this term. They emerged in the world of premodern Ashkenazic Jewry and represent one of the richest and least-known forms of Jewish religious literature. Because modern sensibility seemed to reject them, and because Yiddish was quickly forgotten by second and third generation Jews in the West, they have been sadly neglected. Although a few have been individually translated into English, this is the first bilingual anthology ever to appear. The prayers in this volume are characterized by a highly personal and intimate style and mark occasions in the religious calendar, such as the Tkhine for the Blessing of the New Moon, as well as occasions in the life of a woman, such as the Tkhine for a Mother who Leads Her Child to Kheyder for the First Time. The tkhines are of great appeal and value to those who wish to hear the voices of Jewish women in history, study Yiddish literature and culture, or create new expressions of spirituality.

Author : Devra Kay
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780827607736

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Seyder Tkhines by Devra Kay Pdf

The Seyder Tkhines, translated from its original Yiddish by noted tkhines scholar, Devra Kay, and centerpiece of this groundbreaking work, was a standard Yiddish prayer book for women. It first appeared in Amsterdam in 1648, and continued to be published for the next three generations, usually inside the Hebrew synagogue prayer book. A product of an age when mysticism pervaded mainstream Judaism, the Seyder Tkhines provided women with newly composed, alternative daily prayers that were more specific to their needs. Included in this volume is a unique Yiddish manuscript dating from the 17th century ? a collection of prayers written specifically for a rich, pregnant woman, which Kay discovered among the rare books of the Bodleian Library in Oxford, England. Now, for the first time, these prayers have been skillfully translated and brought to public view. In addition to her translations, Kay presents her own extensive commentary, providing a deeper understanding of the historic, religious, and cultural background of this period in Jewish history. This unparalleled book will have special appeal to those interested in the social, literary, and religious history of women, as well as the history of the Yiddish language and literature. The interest in these forgotten prayers and their significance to the lives of women has now been revived, and these tkhines are ready to be rediscovered by a modern readership.

Author : Nina Beth Cardin
Publisher : Jason Aronson
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Religion
ISBN : IND:30000039913409

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סדר תפלות נדה, חלה, הדלקה by Nina Beth Cardin Pdf

A presentation of prayers in their original Italian form, accompanied by an English translation and insightful commentary. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Norman Tarnor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015034289010

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A Book of Jewish Women's Prayers by Norman Tarnor Pdf

A translation with commentary of the Yiddish techinot (prayers), once extremely popular among Eastern European Jews.

Author : Chava Weissler
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999-11-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 080703617X

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Voices of the Matriarchs by Chava Weissler Pdf

Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award for 1998 With Voices of the Matriarchs, Chava Weissler restores balance to our knowledge of Judaism by providing the first look at the Yiddish prayers women created during centuries of exclusion from men's observance. In Weissler's hands, these prayers (called thkines) open a new window into early modern European Jewish women's lives, beliefs, devotion, and relationships with God.

Author : Ruchi Koval
Publisher : Mosaica Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1937887561

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Service of the Heart by Ruchi Koval Pdf

Author : Susan Grossman,Rivka Haut
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780827604414

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Daughters of the King by Susan Grossman,Rivka Haut Pdf

Daughters of the King explores women's involvement in and around the synagogue from its antecedents in the bibical period to contemporary times. The contributors to the book, including Susan Grossman, Rivka Haut, Tikva Frymer-Kensky, Judith Hauptman, Paula Hyman, and others, represent an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, drawing from history, anthropology, sociology, women's studies, Jewish law, the Bible, and rabbinic thought.

Author : Yvette Alt Miller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441110237

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Angels at the Table by Yvette Alt Miller Pdf

Authoritative and personal, this is an introduction to all aspects of a traditional Jewish Shabbat, providing both an inspirational call to observe this weekly holiday and a comprehensive resource.

Author : Marcia Falk
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0807010170

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Sefer Ha-berakhot by Marcia Falk Pdf

A collection of blessings, poems, meditations, and rituals presented in English and Hebrew offers a traditional perspective to weekday, Sabbath, and New Moon festival observances.

Author : Women of Reform Judaism (U.S.)
Publisher : Urj Press
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Feminism
ISBN : 0807408077

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A Gift of Prayer by Women of Reform Judaism (U.S.) Pdf

The Federation Temple sisterhoods, has collected the writings of its members and of women rabbis to create this books of personal prayers, poetry, reflections and meditations for every occasion in a women's life.

Author : Yitzchok Kirzner,Lisa Aiken
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 188058283X

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The Art of Jewish Prayer by Yitzchok Kirzner,Lisa Aiken Pdf

A book on prayer any other--refreshing, relevant, exciting, deep, and invigorating. Each down-to-earth page is filled with stimulating that make prayer come alive, that transform it into the most relevant of human activities, that make it what it should and can be--moments of strength and power, the miracle of man's ability to talk the God and know that God is actually listening.

Author : Elyse D. Frishman
Publisher : CCAR Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0881231045

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משכן תפלה by Elyse D. Frishman Pdf

Author : Markus H. McDowell
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 3161488504

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Prayers of Jewish Women by Markus H. McDowell Pdf

Markus McDowell examines how the literature of the Second Temple period portrays women at prayer through an examination of the literary context and character of those prayers. The goal of this work is a greater understanding of how women were portrayed in literary sources and an offering of some fresh insights for the study of women's religious and social roles in the ancient world. The texts are analyzed and categorized within five areas: social location, content, form, occasion, and gender perspective. The prayers are also compared and contrasted with men's prayers in the same sources. The analysis includes locating (as much as possible) the historical, literary, and cultic context of each document in which these prayers appear. By examining all prayers in these texts uttered by women (not just prayers of named or prominent women), and then comparing them with all the prayers of men in those same texts, certain patterns appear. This study adds to our knowledge of women and religion in Second Temple Judaism by primarily exploring patterns that appear among the prayers in the literature of the Second Temple period. While there are fewer prayers by women than men in this literature, the prayers of women are not portrayed as significantly different from those of men in terms of social location, content, form, or occasion. At the same time, the prayers of women exhibit other patterns of language - and in a minor way, form and occasion - that differ from the prayers of men.