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Rebecca bat Meir Tiktiner

1550 – 1605

Yiddish-language writer

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Lived 1550 – 1605 (aged 54–55). Rebecca bat Meir Tiktiner was an author, translator, preacher, rabbi and writer.

Rebecca bat Meir Tiktiner (; died 1605 ), was a Yiddish writer, whose works include a treatise on Jewish ethics in the style of musar literature as well as a poem about Simchat Torah.

Life She or her father probably resided in the northeast Poland town of Tykocin. According to the records of the Old New Synagogue, she was married to someone with rabbinic training (ha-rav rabbi).

Her ethical treatise Meneket Rivkah (Prague, 1609. Cracow, 1618) is 36 folios long and organized by seven gates. The author focuses on the duties of a housewife in various relationships (e.g., to husband or guest) as well as a general ethical approach, dealing with niddah, health social practices. The treatise includes stories from the Talmud and midrashic literature. 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 modern period." Von Rohde claims that this is "probably the first substantive published book in Yiddish written by a Jewish women)".

Rebecca also wrote a rhymed Yiddish hymn for the holiday of Simḥat Torah entitled Eyn Simkhes-Toyre Lid, which describes an eschatological, festive banquet for men and women alike. The poem, which survives in two separate undated 17th century printings, consists of 40 rhyming couplets (with acrostic), in which each verse is followed by the refrain hallelujah.

She was born before 1550 and died in 1605. She was buried in Prague.

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Important facts

Born
1550
Birth century
Died
1605, Prague
Also known as
Rivke bas Meir of Tikotin, Rivḳah Ṭiḳṭiner

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Yiddish-language writer

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Rebecca bat Meir Tiktiner was born in 1550.

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Rebecca bat Meir Tiktiner died in 1605 in Prague.

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Rebecca bat Meir Tiktiner was an author, translator, preacher, rabbi and writer.

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· Wikipedia: Rebecca bat Meir Tiktiner

· Wikidata: Q467387

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