Berurja

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Berurja ( Aramaic ברוריה) is the only woman described as a scholar in Talmudic literature, of whom numerous anecdotes have been passed down in rabbinical literature .

She belongs to the third generation of the Tannaites , around the 2nd century. She was the daughter of Chanina ben Teradjon and the wife of Rabbi Meir .

Berurja is the only woman in Talmudic literature whose halachic views and opinions are taken into account. She is said to have learned 300 halachot from the rabbis in a single day (Tractate Pesachim 62b). Their outstanding scholarship was still admired by the Amoraeans who discussed in Babylonia and Palestine .

It is known from literature that it is praised for his aggadic work ("Wherever you hear Eliezer's words in the Haggadah, bow your ear like a funnel", Bab. Chullin 89 a) scholar Eliezer ben Jose ha -Gelili knew how to correct her as well as her husband, Rabbi Meir, one of the authors of the Mishnah .

Death by suicide

In the Babylonian Talmud the death of Berurja is only hinted at. However, it was designed with legends by Rashi . According to this, Rabbi Meir wanted to persuade his wife Berurja to commit adultery to test her great strength of will. After she actually got carried away, she then strangled herself out of shame.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beruria. In: Julius Hans Schoeps (Ed.): New Lexicon of Judaism. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1998, ISBN 3-577-10604-2 , p. 124.
  2. ↑ Jeschurun: a monthly sheet for the promotion of the Jewish spirit and Jewish life: Volume 9, p. 21
  3. ^ Studies, Essays and Reviews Volume Three Jews and Judaism, - p. 73
  4. ↑ Kiddushin 80b. Rashi there explains this phrase (נשים דעתן קלות עליהן, literally, "women's minds weigh lightly upon them") as indicating lack of sexual inhibition
  5. ↑ Mentioned in a midrash, attributed to Rabenu Nissim of Kairouan

literature

  • Julius Hans Schoeps (Ed.): New Lexicon of Judaism. Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1998, ISBN 3-577-10604-2 .
  • Matthias Morgenstern : Dehors ou dedans? Les femmes dans le Beth Midrash dans la littérature rabbinique: L`Exemple de Berouria. In: Guyonne Leduc (ed.): Comment faire des études-genres avec de la littérature. Masquereading, Paris 2014, pp. 161–170.
personal data
SURNAME Berurja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tannaitin
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century or 2nd century
DATE OF DEATH 2nd century