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Song for Simkhes Toyre
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Our God is one. You are my God:     Hallelujah! Who created me, body and soul:      Hallelujah! You created Heaven and earth:      Hallelujah! We will praise You forever:      Hallelujah! You…

Contributor:

Rebecca Tiktiner

Places:

Tykocin, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Tykocin, Poland)

Date:

Second Half of the 16th Century

Subjects:

Holidays, Simḥat Torah, Prayer, Women, Piety

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Prayer & Liturgy, Literature, Poetry
Tekhine imohos (Women’s Supplication of the Matriarchs)
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Riboyne shel oylem, Almighty God, You created heaven and earth and all creatures with great compassion within six days and with only ten words. And on the seventh day, which is shabes koydesh, You…

Contributor:

Leah Horowitz

Places:

Glogau, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Głogów, Poland)

Date:

Mid–18th Century

Subjects:

Women, Holidays, Sabbath, Rosh Ḥodesh, Piety

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Theology
Seder mitzvot ha-nashim (The Order of Women’s Commandments): On Marital Relations
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It should be known that after her immersion, every woman should persuade her husband and see to it that he study before he lies with her. And so we find it written regarding Boaz, “And Boaz ate…

Contributor:

Benjamin Slonik

Places:

Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)

Date:

1577

Subjects:

Women, Piety, Sabbath, Food and drink, Purity

Categories:

Law, Rabbinic Law
Meneket Rivkah (Rebecca’s Nursemaid)
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King Solomon, peace be upon him, says in…

Contributor:

Rebecca Tiktiner

Places:

Tykocin, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Tykocin, Poland)

Date:

Second Half of the 16th Century

Subjects:

Women, Piety, Family, Marriage, Yiddish

Categories:

Literature, Wisdom Literature, Religion & Theology
Commentary on Sotah: On the Education of Girls
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Rabbi Eliezer said: Whoever teaches his daughter Torah teaches her indecency [m. Sotah 3:4] The rabbis wrote that this refers only to the Oral Torah; but the Written Torah—even though one should not…

Contributor:

Chofetz Chaim

Places:

Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1918

Subjects:

Education, Women, Oral Torah, Piety, Sin

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Theology