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Jacob Ben Isaac Ashkenazi
When Eve Ate the Etrog: A Passage from Tsena-Urena
There was once a custom for a pregnant woman to bite off the tip of the etrog at the end of Sukkot. This excerpt includes the text of a Yiddish prayer, or tkhine, that the pregnant woman is instructed to recite based on an interpretation of Genesis 3:6.