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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…