Children lament their mother in Brestetshke
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.
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
A woman's lament for her husband
"Today it is customary to go to the cemetery with an elderly Jewess"
Inviting the dead to our parties - a post for Hoshanah Rabbah
"Incantations must not be taught to anyone"
Woman soul
How to make soul candles for Yom Kippur
How to measure a cemetery in Elul
And the Jewish women ... they knew how to go to war with Satan
Leybeshekhe the 'Cemetery Jewess' of Kremenits
Gitele the pious gabete of Koriv
Double, Double, Mi un Tsores ...
An ayin-hore incantation, to exercise an evil eye from a child
Das Feld un das Keywermessen - S. Weissenberg
A tkhine for making Yom Kippur candles - extract from Mendele Moykher Sforim's 'Shloyme Reb Khayims'
Mestn Feld - a memory from Pruzhany (Pruzhene), Poland
Feld-mestn by Morris Rosenfeld