About Sarah Bas Tovim
Lived 1601 – 1800. Sarah Bas Tovim was a writer.
Sarah Bas Tovim (, lived in the late 17th and early 18th centuries) was a Ukrainian Jewish woman, author of Shloshe Shearim ("Three Portals") the most widely circulated of the tkhines, Yiddish-language prayer booklets intended mainly for Jewish women. Dovid Katz refers to Sarah as Sora bas Toyvim and refers to another of her works that have survived, Sheker ha-kheyn.
Born in the small town of Satanov in the Podolia region of Ukraine, she claimed descent from Rabbi Mordechai of Brisk.
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Who was Sarah Bas Tovim?
Ukrainian writer
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Sarah Bas Tovim was born in 1601 in Sataniv.
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Sarah Bas Tovim died in 1800.
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Sarah Bas Tovim was a writer.
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