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Dec 11, 2022 · One such woman’s name is mentioned briefly in the Torah portion of Mikeitz. “Pharaoh called Joseph ’s name Zaphnath-Paneach, and he gave him Osnat, the daughter of Potiphar, priest of On, as a wife.1. There is a tradition in the Midrash that Osnat was the daughter born to Joseph’s sister, Dina, as the result of her having been raped by ...
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Asenath Barazani was the daughter of the eminent Rabbi Shmuel b. Netanel Ha-Levi of Kurdistan (1560?–1625/1635?). Her father, a scholar and mystic with a large following, aimed to rectify the plight of his brethren, namely, the dearth of educated leaders. He built a yeshiva in Mosul where he hoped to train young men who would become community leade...
Asenath was married to one of her father’s finest students, Rabbi Jacob Mizrahi. She described the conditions of their marriage in the continuation of the above letter: Thus we learn that Rabbi Mizrahi agreed to conditions whereby Asenath would never have to spend her time on housework, because she was a Torah scholar like himself. After her father...
Few of her writings are extant, but one can perceive in them her complete mastery of Torah, Talmud, Midrash, Kabbalahand Hebrew, for her letters are lyrical as well as erudite. A recently discovered manuscript provides additional insight into her life. Inter alia, it reveals an attempt to deceive her regarding the means of delivery of contributions...
No mention of opposition to her leadership is recorded. She was clearly important to the Kurdish Jews in her lifetime, but one cannot find any influence on the lives of other women in the community, even of her daughters. However, her status has been used to justify permitting Orthodox women to be ordained as rabbis. In addition, her descendants ha...
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Feb 11, 2021 · Osnat inherited her father’s curiosity about Judaism and convinced him to teach her to read and let her independently study the Jewish religious texts. She was considered to be a master of Torah ...
Mar 20, 2018 · This kind of abnormality took place in 17 th century Kurdistan – one woman called Osnat Barazani. She was a descendent of a famous dynasty of rabbis, a brilliant scholar and a most beautiful woman, as well as a spiritual leader of the Kurdish Jewry. A Jewish family in Mosul, Iraq, 1930. Beit Hatfutsot, the Oster Visual Documentation Center.
The Jewish Book Council recommends the book, Osnat and Her Dove, by Sigal Samuel. In sixteenth-century Mosul (in today’s Iraq), there lived a Jewish girl who longed to be a Torah scholar. Facing discouraging obstacles, but gifted and persistent, she would not surrender her dreams to a life of enclosed domestic ...
Feb 19, 2021 · Curious Osnat, trained in her father's yeshiva, found that each answer she learned from the Torah's words "gave rise to seven new questions in her mind." Eventually, Osnat became a teacher (with a pet dove by her side), then rose to prominence as the yeshiva's leader--the first female in history to hold that role.
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Feb 10, 2021 · Osnat inherited her father’s curiosity about Judaism and convinced him to teach her to read and let her independently study the Jewish religious texts. She was considered to be a master of Torah ...
