"Each Jewish woman is a bas Melech, Dr. Freedman!"
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ebbetzin Silverberg was known throughout Eretz Yisrael for her amazing shiurim.
This was a woman who had inspired a generation of women with her unique blend of humor and Torah. Beyond this, her intellect reached even the most skeptical secular corners of the Land, where she was famous for lecturing on college campuses and kibbutzim.
From the Golan to Eilat, Rebbetzin Silverberg’s shiurim were packed with women — young and old — who came to hear her words of Torah. She was so busy and in such high demand, with tens of thousands of women seeking her advice on relationships, chinuch, and everything in between, that it might have been, lehavdil, easier to get in to see the Chofetz Chaim ztz”l for a brachah.
For me though, Rebbetzin Silverberg wasn’t known for her derashos — although according to my wife they were quite exceptional — but rather for the tremendous achrayus she took for her students.
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