Available for download The Meneket Rivkah : A Manual of Wisdom and Piety for Jewish Women

The Meneket Rivkah : A Manual of Wisdom and Piety for Jewish Women Rivkah Bat Meir

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Author: Rivkah Bat Meir
Date: 09 Feb 2009
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Original Languages: English
Format: Hardback::360 pages
ISBN10: 0827608357
Publication City/Country: Philadelphia, United States
Filename: the-meneket-rivkah-a-manual-of-wisdom-and-piety-for-jewish-women.pdf
Dimension: 152x 229x 22.86mm::635.03g
Download: The Meneket Rivkah : A Manual of Wisdom and Piety for Jewish Women
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The first-known Yiddish book to be written a woman, Meneket Rivkah (Rivkah's Nurse) reveals a great deal about 16th-century Jewish women's lives and religious practices. Rebecca bat Meir Tiktiner was a Yiddish writer, whose works include a treatise on Jewish The ethical treatise, "Meneket Rivkah" (Prague, 1609. Tiktiner differentiates between the wisdom of the body and of the soul (guf and nefesh). This practical guidelines "paint a vivid picture of Jewish women's daily lives in the early Rivke bas Me'ir Tiktiner, a preacher and teacher for women, was the first woman author of a Yiddish book, the moral homiletic Meineket Rivkah ethic in which the author systematically describes as hokhmat ha-guf (wisdom of the body) the experienced and righteous women who, due to their knowledge and piety, need Reprinted with permission from The JPS Guide To Jewish Women, (Jewish Her book of ethics, Meneket Rivkah (Rebecca's nursemaid), was the first book