Bayla Falk

Bayla Falk
Bayla Falk
Personal life
Born	Lemberg, Ruthenia, Kingdom of Poland
Died	Jerusalem, Ottoman Syria
Spouse	Joshua Falk
Parent	Israel Edels (father);
Religious life
Religion	Judaism

Bayla Falk (Yiddish: ביילא פאלק)^[1] was a woman of Talmudic learning. She was born in Lemberg about the middle of the sixteenth century, and died at an advanced age at Jerusalem.

Biography

Bayla Falk was a daughter of the philanthropist and head of the community at Lemberg, Israel Edels, and wife of the well-known Talmudist Joshua Falk, author of the Sefer Me'irat 'Enayim.^[2] She moved to Jerusalem after her husband's death in 1614.

Bayla had a strong inclination toward Talmudic studies, and gave some decisions on certain difficult halakhic cases. One of these was that on festivals the festive blessing over the lights should be said before and not after the lights are kindled.^[3]

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Ginzberg, Louis; Berlin, Israel (1902). "Bella, wife of Joshua Falk". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 662.

^ Also spelled Beila Falk and Bella Cohen.
^ Taitz, E.; Henry, S.; Tallan, C. (2003). The JPS Guide to Jewish Women: 600 B.C.E. to 1900 C.E. Jewish Publication Society. p. 136. ISBN 978-0-8276-0752-1.
^ Landau, Ezekiel. Dagul me-Rebabah to Shulḥan 'Arukh, Oraḥ Ḥayyim. Chapter 12.

[1] Also spelled Beila Falk and Bella Cohen.

[2] Taitz, E.; Henry, S.; Tallan, C. (2003). The JPS Guide to Jewish Women: 600 B.C.E. to 1900 C.E. Jewish Publication Society. p. 136. ISBN 978-0-8276-0752-1.

[3] Landau, Ezekiel. Dagul me-Rebabah to Shulḥan 'Arukh, Oraḥ Ḥayyim. Chapter 12.

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