Trying to Conceive

The longing for children shaped the lives of our matriarchs, and it continues to bring joy and sorrow to the lives of many people today. Medical advances have helped with infertility. However, those undergoing treatment often suffer during the process and crave a spiritual element to counterbalance the arduous clinical procedures. 
 

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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”

A brief prayer before undergoing in vitro fertilization

Personal blessing that God will hear our prayers to allow us to perform mitzvot

Affirmation of wedding blessings when a couple decides to have children

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

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

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

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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