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A contemporary poem on the desire to conceive

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A prayer, fashioned after traditional tekhinot, women’s prayers, for a child

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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”

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A brief prayer before undergoing in vitro fertilization

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Affirmation of wedding blessings when a couple decides to have children

Two people holding hands against a cloudy sky and ocean backdrop, viewed from behind in black and white.

A prayer to be recited by a couple upon deciding to have children

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The author suggests adding an unlit candle to the Shabbat candlelabrum each week until the baby is born

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Describes the practice of going to a mikveh (ritual bath) as it relates to the desire for conception

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A prayer to be read by the partner of a woman being inseminated with donor sperm in the doctor’s office

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