Tkhines (Yiddish for 'prayers', 'supplications'), pronounced 'tkhiners' - the i is 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 of Supp… (More on Tkhine)