Listen, Dear, Esteemed, Pious Women
“Who has ever heard of or seen such a novelty; has it ever happened in countless years, that a woman has written something of her own accord? And she has read numerous verses and midrashim,” wrote the printer, Gersom, the son of Rabbi Bezalel Katz, in Prague in 1609 about Rabbanit Rebecca bat Meir and her book, the Meneket Rivkah. Join Rabbanit Leah Sarna for an exploration of what might be the first printed sefer authored by a Jewish woman. The book is originally in Yiddish, but this class will be working out of the 2008 English translation by Dr. Frauke von Rohden entitled Meneket Rivkah: A Manual of Wisdom and Piety for Jewish Women.