Seyder Tkhines: The Forgotten Book of Common Prayer for Jewish Women

communal prayer and singing led by a firzoger, or female prayer leader.

women attended synagogue and read their tkhines on the New Year and the Day of Atonement.

Women had access for the first time to a mutually supportive network of information presented in different ways.

is that its content is communal, rather than private and individual, as has previously been believed.

woman is forbidden to enter the synagogue and would be obliged to pray at home in order to fulfill her daily obligations.

there is a tkhine to be recited at the burial ground "after synagogue on the eves of New Year and the Day of Atonement."

"immediately in the morning, around the time of washing, [women] say some kind of request and according to scriptural law that is sufficient. And it is possible that the rabbis also did not obligate them for more than that.""

Jews of this period believed themselves to be on the verge of a Messianic redemption that called for spiritual regeneration, heartfelt prayer, and repentance by the entire community,

It also reminds readers that the Torah instructs that a man must not dress in women's clothing.