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Infertility

Historically, Judaism has offered little for women suffering with the pain of infertility. Thankfully, over the last 25 years, Jewish women have transformed the canon of Jewish ritual. Jewish women have both created new rituals grounded in traditional practices and language and have unearthed prayers and rituals from our past written by and for women, responding to their lives and needs.
Photo by Rabbi Roni Handler

Techina for a Woman Experiencing Infertility

A prayer, fashioned after traditional techinot, women's prayers, for a child [more]

Found In: Infertility

Tags: tekhine

The Bath

A contemporary poem that addresses "the stain" of blood which, when trying to get pregnant, "becomes a sign of failure, of sadness, of emptiness, of death." [more]

Found In: Infertility

Liberating Reproduction from Despair: A kavanah for conception in the age of infertility

A brief prayer before undergoing in vitro fertilization [more]

Found In: Infertility

Tags: conception

Blessing to Heal Infertility

Personal blessing that God will hear our prayers to allow us to perform mitzvot. [more]

Found In: Infertility, Healing from Illness