Yalta Breaks Some Barrels: The Talmud’s Most Learned Woman Teaches a Lesson
Two of the Talmud’s sharpest minds face off in a battle of personal honor, learnedness and
gender dynamics: Ullah, the perennial carrier of knowledge and rumors from land to land, and
Yalta, the learned and sharp wife of R. Nachman. Ulla refuses to see in Yalta anything but an
object, and she in response tries to reveal her opponent’s toxicity. The outcome of this tense
encounter remains open to interpretation…
gender dynamics: Ullah, the perennial carrier of knowledge and rumors from land to land, and
Yalta, the learned and sharp wife of R. Nachman. Ulla refuses to see in Yalta anything but an
object, and she in response tries to reveal her opponent’s toxicity. The outcome of this tense
encounter remains open to interpretation…
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