, 1880-10-01
Jswah wou~n

We hud l0srusd rAtlsEi1al wUulea
from "A lar baSk - ii.s siry eaab r,z..srs
20 che prvSept tIss, ue vl.l frgshOE our
menore. sith tie NAMES q few q
these.
The wns 81 ~ rabbi aSl esae lin
isier, joseph 1bn Nagdila, n recorded
as Sirtuost sai Teamed hsmnsn She.
the daughter Of poor rAbbi, T. Nissim
Of CaiiSAn, won, with the superior en-
dovments of her mind, the hand of the
richest and most esteemed uaaS in Grsa
ada; she wsh lis Lane. io 1eaer he
heart; her married lIia VAS not ashappy
one. When not older than 80 wears
she was widowed, Her husband, huTl-
ed from the heights of his position, was
crucifed at the gates OF Grenada, De
cember 30, 1866. Only With tifRculty
did she succeed in saving her own life.
With her only son she fed to Lucena,
where, because of her great learning, she
was welcomed by all, and where she was
honoIably sustained by the jewish com.
munity until her death. The death Of
her son--to whom was given rabbinical
education - occurred before hers in his
early youth. a,ru JuE 1r uggT5u3 ss
FL Mualllma, the learned was the
name Of the wife Of that Ibn Altarar
who transplanted the Karaite teaching,
which was contending against rabbin-
ism, to CASTLE, and who there sought to
gain for it an adherence among the rab-
bis. After his death, 1926, his wife
carried on his work. She was SO learn
ed that she passed as theological au-
thority among the believers of Karait7
ism; they depended upon her for the
Karaite traditions, and one was wont to
inquire Of the other, how this orsthat
was explained by the, "Muallima-" "i.o a
The only daughter of the renowned
Castillian, Jewish author, Abdu-hassan
Jehuda Halevi, is celebrated as an au-
thoress. She is said to have written an
elegy which is to be found in he fathers
"Divan," and which bears the acrostic
Of Bath Levi (LeW's daughter,)
In France, too, we find a number Of
richly gifted women. We begin in Or
leans Bellette, sister of Z. Isaac Ben
Menachem, who was known as Talmud-
ical authority, and who lived in the mid
die of the eleventh century, and Hanna,
sister of r. Jacob, Of Orleans, who was
killed in london OF the coronation day
of Richard l., of England. Bellette,
commissioned by her brother, instructed
the women Of her native city, in tpeir
religious duties; Hanna instructed her
sisters in the faith with regard to the
blessing spoken at the lighting of the
Sabbath candles. '. ''!
A number Of learned women are nam
ed to us in the family Of Salomcn~ ben
Isaac, or Rashi, known as commenta-
tor of the Bible and the Talmud, Of Troy,
Champagne. ''' vi" .,', .,'' t. '.',
Rachel, called ,,Bellejegne, Rashi's
daughter was well educated. She did
not live happily with her husband, Ehe-
ser, and obtained divorce from him..
Miriam, Rashi's granddaughter
daughter of r. Jehuda ben, Nathan, was
so familiar with tile Jewish law, that
questiousg which *ers connected With
cooking and bakery were left to her de-
cision, and She was cited by rabbinicai
authorities as o credible source,
Anna, another grand; daughter, Of
Rashi, daughterof r. Meir, Of Ramerue,
like Billette, instructed women III their
religious dutieE IS.
. In the first part Of the four3enth
century, we End the mother OF tie
French chief rabbi, Mathatias, num-
bered among his pupils, and was highly
thought Of by Charles ". His mother
was, as Zunz expresses il, almost a fe-
male rabbi The learned RABBI Simon
ben Zemarh, Duran, Of Algiers, speaks
Of her in the highesttesmsand substan.
tiates her asFegtipn that the instrSetine
teacher ard not the questioning Z eholsfI
must express bimselF With alldatlnfte-
ness and precision. lsf q - ~
Roma was tas home. 81 Paula. die
Mansi, the daughter OF Jacob Hasso-
pher (ihe copyis.), anil the wife Of Ja-
chiel ben Salomun. Eersed IN the He
brew language and possessing consider.
able rabbinieal knowledge, she supported
her father .n bis works In ICES she
copied two commentaries 0i tie Bible 70
neatly and correctly that DE lanlwr'-
ing is -0rlry e trr-cid r-si-c, evsn
today Anl o. Wtdnsshy, diva aseni
oi Ntan 'Tarh, 1903 II flihclin
just as lluir4NA d harrfr te5 qlar,o
yol1uss NJ ~ HHa't-h-'h, ~ Rsv.