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Rashi's daughters were the three daughters and only children of the medieval Talmudic scholar, Rashi and his wife Rivka. Their three daughters were Yocheved, Miriam and Rachel (11th–12th century).
In 1068, the scholar Salomon ben Isaac returns home to Troyes, France, to take over the family winemaking business and embark on a path that will indelibly influence the Jewish world, writing the first Talmud commentary, and secretly teaching Talmud to his daughters.
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Rashi’s Daughters Series by Maggie Anton. 4 primary works • 4 total works. Life, Love and Talmud in Medieval France. Book 1. Joheved. by Maggie Anton. 3.98 · 3,793 Ratings · 328 Reviews · published 2005 · 19 editions. Rashi, one of the greatest Jewish scholars who eve… Want to Read. Rate it: Book 2. Miriam. by Maggie Anton.
Jul 31, 2007 · Built on seven years of exhaustive historical research and ten years of Talmud study, "Rashi's Daughters" explores what might have been, weaving actual events, as described in responsa literature and Talmud commentaries, into an account of the lives of these amazing women.
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About Rashi’s Daughters, Book I: Joheved. The first novel in a dramatic trilogy set in eleventh-century France about the lives and loves of three daughters of the great Talmud scholar
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Jun 15, 2005 · Rashi, one of the greatest Jewish scholars who ever lived, had no sons, only three daughters. Much has been written about Rashi and his grandsons, the Tosafot, but almost nothing of his daughters. Legend has it that they were learned in a time when women were forbidden to study the sacred texts.
May 28, 2013 · The great 11th-century rabbi and commentator had 4 daughters (1 died young) and no sons. Miriam, Yocheved, and Rachel are among the few women known by name from this period of Jewish history.
