Tkhines (Yiddish for "prayers" or "supplications"), pronounced "tkhines" - the "i"'s pronounced as in "fit" and the "kh" like the "ch" in Scottish "loCH." Dating from the 17th century, they were Yiddish-language prayer books intended for use by Ashkenazic Jewish women who, unlike the men of the time, typically couldn't read Hebrew, the language of the established synagogue prayer book. [Liptzin,1972, 15] The earliest known, and most widespread, book of Tkhines was the "Seyder Tkhines" (Sequence… (More on Tkhine)