Inviting the dead to our parties - a post for Hoshanah Rabbah
In the summer of 2018, my little sister Viv got married. Our mother died when she was 2 and I was 4, and I was incredibly honoured when ...
On this page you can find all the posts that contain examples of tkhines - prayers or supplications often delivered spontaneously, klogenishn - lamentations of mourning women, many of them recorded by ethnographers, and opshprekhenishn - incantations used to ward off an evil eye.
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To learn more about tkhines and other forms of spontaneous prayer, check out the work of my friend and ritual-collaborator, Rabbi Noam Lerman at spontaneousprayer.com