ext_1474 ([identity profile] villeinage.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] aesc 2007-05-20 02:23 am (UTC)

Actually, isn't the read string supposed to be a special blessing for fertility?

That's the more traditional use, I think. (Because Rachel was barren for so long.)

Rachel's Tomb used to be kind of the place for infertile Jewish women to go,IIRC, before the matsav.

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