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Category: The Blessed Home

Talmidot shel Yeshua

By Tikvah Michael

As women, perhaps we've come to accept that the disciples of Yeshua were some sort of men-only club. That said, would it catch you off guard to learn that Yeshua took women as disciples too?

When we think of the disciples in Yeshua's time, most of us assume that they were men. After all, most of the Bible, at first glance, speaks of "The Twelve Disciples," who were all men. As women, perhaps we've come to accept that the disciples of Yeshua were some sort of men-only club. That said, would it catch you off guard to learn that Yeshua took women as disciples too?

This article is titled Talmidot Shel Yeshua ("The Disciples of Yeshua"). If you know Hebrew, then you will recognize that the word for "disciples" is in the feminine form. If you're not familiar with Hebrew, let's take a quick look at the Hebrew word for "disciple," talmid (תַּלְמִיד). It means "learner" or "student." It comes from the root lamad (לָמַד), which means "to learn." Talmid is the masculine form of this word, but when we add the Hebrew letters, vav and tav as a suffix, the word becomes talmidot (תַּלְמִידת) and can be translated as "women disciples." After all, women can be students too.

In Yeshua's day, it was almost unheard of for a sage to take on a woman as a disciple. Yet we do find one exception. There was a famous "sage-ess" recorded in historical literature. Her name was Beruria. Beruria's father was the head of a second-century Torah school in the Galilean village of Sekaniah.1 Beruria's father discipled her along with his other students, and Beruria came to be known as one of the sharpest Torah scholars of her generation. As far as I know, there is no other mention of any other women being disciples or Torah scholars. Yeshua, on the other hand, did have women among His disciples.

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