re: #244 SanFranciscoZionist
Bruriah is very famous. There are several girls’ yeshivot named after her today.
Hell, in seventeenth century Kurdistan, of all places, you get a famous lady Torah scholar, Asnat Barezani.
And the popes listened to Catherine of Siena, and made her a Doctor of the Church. Couldn’t say mass.
(Been to her house—it’s around the corner from a great student bar in Pisa.)