Rashi's Daughters, Book I: Joheved: A Novel of Love and the Talmud in Medieval France BOTY_2025 The brain can only assume

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Rashi's Daughters, Book I: Joheved: A Novel of Love and the Talmud in Medieval France BOTY_2025 The brain can only assumeThe first novel in a dramatic trilogy set in eleventh century France about the lives and loves of three daughters of the great Talmud scholar In 1068, the scholar Salomon ben Isaac returns home to Troyes, France, to take over the family winemaking business and embark on a path that will indelibly influence the Jewish world, writing the first Talmud commentary, and secretly teaching Talmud to his daughters. Joheved, the eldest of his three girls, finds