Esther Rabi

Tinneius Rufus, the Roman ambassador to Judea at the beginning of the second century, asked Rabbi Akiva, “Why does G‑d hate us?"

Her husband had said, “I swear that you will not enter my house until you spit in the rabbi's face.”

Rebbi and Rabbi Chiya were walking together. When they came to a town, they said, “If there’s a Torah scholar living here, let’s go visit him and pay him honor.”

What should I buy for you today?” “Some endives, not fresh. Leftovers from yesterday. If they’re wilted they’ll be cheap.”

The couple’s children had been playing in the dirt of their yard, where they found enough money to support their family for six years, so they called their mother.

They were taken to the attic of Rav Amram the pious, and the ladder was taken away so that no men could climb up to bother them.

There was a man who fed his father fat, juicy chickens. One day, his father asked him, “My son, where do you get these?”

Shmuel and Avlet, a Persian astrologer, were sitting together watching people go to the pond to cut reeds...

At a young age, she announced that she was going to have a home just like theirs when she grew up, with a big Shabbat table and many children...

In 1973, Ellen Peters, a Protestant biracial woman, was chosen as South Africa’s beauty queen. Today, she goes by the name Ilana Skolnick, and she is an observant Jew.