Sarah Bas Tovim (lived late 17th and early 18th century) was a Ukrainian Jew, author of "Shloshe Shearim" ("Three Portals") the most widely circulated of the "tkhines", Yiddish-language prayer booklets intended mainly for Jewish women. [Liptzin, 1972, 16] Born in the small town of Satanov in the Podolia region of Ukraine, she claimed descent from Rabbi Mordechai of Brisk. Wikipedia
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