cookies that are called Brezel and some send Zucker Konfekt[sugar candies]
and some send whatever they wish and they honor the parturient with them.
And she wears a pretty scarf and a Sturz on the Schleier^110 and she wears a
Röckli [skirt or dress], a garment of shrouds underneath her outfit, when she
goes from her house of birth to the synagogue on Sabbath morning. And after
she goes out of the synagogue she wears a beautiful Schleier and she takes off
theSturz and theRöckli.^111...
During the morning prayers on that Sabbath, it is obligatory to call the hus-
band of the parturient to the Torah and they make two blessings for him, one
for his promise to donate one liter of wax. And while he is still standing in front
of the Torah scroll, his wife sends him the wimpel, because here they put the
wimpel in the synagogue immediately on the Sabbath on which the parturi-
ent leaves her house for the synagogue.^112...
On that Sabbath, each parturient, whether she had a boy or a girl, sends
small bowls filled with fruit and sugar to her relatives and neighbors and espe-
cially to those who honored her with the portions that are regularly sent to a
parturient, as described above. For the three meals [of the Sabbath], the par-
turients invite female neighbors and relatives, whomever they want, and they
eat, drink, and rejoice with the parturients.
rick simeone
(Rick Simeone)
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