Francesa Sarah of Safed

Francesa Sarah (Hebrew: פרנסיזה שרה‎; 16th-century), was a Jewish mystic. She is described in the Sefer ha-Ḥezyonot ("The Book of Visions") by Hayyim Vital.^[1] She was a holy woman in the early Sabbateanism in Safed, and unique in Jewish religious history as the only woman regarded to have had a magid, an angelic spirit with the ability to foretell the future. A magid was, in accordance with belief, granted only to very select few among the highest scholars, and she was the only woman credited such. She is depicted as extremely wise and righteous, and made several famed prophesies.

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↑ Verini, Alexandra (2022), Sauer, Michelle M.; Watt, Diane; McAvoy, Liz Herbert, eds., "Women and Comparative Religion" (in en), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Medieval Women's Writing in the Global Middle Ages (Cham: Springer International Publishing): pp. 1–8, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-76219-3_37-1.pdf, ISBN 978-3-030-76219-3, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76219-3_37-1, retrieved 2024-01-20

Emily Taitz, Sondra Henry & Cheryl Tallan, The JPS Guide to Jewish Women: 600 B.C.E.to 1900 C.E., 2003

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[1] Verini, Alexandra (2022), Sauer, Michelle M.; Watt, Diane; McAvoy, Liz Herbert, eds., "Women and Comparative Religion" (in en), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Medieval Women's Writing in the Global Middle Ages (Cham: Springer International Publishing): pp. 1–8, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-76219-3_37-1.pdf, ISBN 978-3-030-76219-3, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76219-3_37-1, retrieved 2024-01-20

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Francesa Sarah of Safed

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