Seeking Fertility

SEEKING FERTILITY

לֵלַּפְתִהְל ךיֵא םיִּבַרָה ךיֶמֲחַרְּב וּנֵדְּמַלְת עַמְׁשִתְו הָבוֹטְל םָדְקָפְל תוֹרָקֲע ליִבְׁשִּב לָּכ וּיְהִיֶׁש וּנֵתָעְוַׁש ןיִזֲאַתְו וּנֵתָלִפְּת ,הָרֵהְמ לַק שׁיִח הָבוֹטְל תוֹדָקְפִנ תוֹרָקֲעָה םיִמָיַקְו םיִיַח םיִנָּב ךיֶמֲחַרְּב וּדיִלוֹיְו םָיַה לוֹחְּכ לֵאָרְׂשִי יֵנְּב” ךְּמַע וּבַּרְתִיְו “רֵפָּסִי אלְו דַּמִי אל רֶׁשֲא

תוֹרְקַע לָּכ לַע ךיֶמֲחַרְו ךיֶעֵמ אָנ וּמֱהֶי םֶהָל ןֵּתִתְו םָתָלִפְּת עַמְׁשִתְו ,םֶהָל רֵתָעֵתְו עַרֶז דיִלוֹהְל וּכְּזִיְו ,הָרֵהְמ לַק שׁיִח ןוֹיָרֵה ,םֶהָּב םָּמִאְו םֶהיִבֲא וּחְמְׂשִיְו אָמָיַק לֶׁש

םיִׂשֲעַמְלוּ הָּפֻחְלוּ הָרוֹתְל םָלְּדַגְל וּכְּזִיְו .םיִבוֹט םיִנָׁשְו םיִמָי ךֶראְל םיִבוֹט In Your abundant compassion, teach us how to pray for barren women seeking a child, so they will become pregnant. Hear our prayer and listen to our cry that all who are struggling with infertility become happily pregnant quickly and easily. In Your compassion, grant that they give birth to viable, healthy children, and may the Jewish family continue to grow ״innumerably like sand on the seashore.”8

Please have compassion on all who seek to be become pregnant. Hear their prayers, and quickly help them to easily become pregnant. May they merit to give birth to a healthy child, and may the parents rejoice in their child. May their parents merit to raise them with Torah wisdom, toward holy partnership, and acts of kindness for many good years.

May (name one or more women) be among these women.

— Rabbi Natan Sternhartz,

Rebbe Noson (1780–1844), Likkutei

Tefillot 1:539

8 9 Hosea 2:1. Excerpted from a prayer in Likkutei Tefillot, a collection of personal prayers by the leading disciple of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov.