Francesa Sarah of Safed
Francesa Sarah (16th-century), was a Jewish mystic. She is described in the Sefer ha-Ḥezyonot ("The Book of Visions") by Hayyim Vital. She was a holy woman in the early Sabbateanism in Safed, and unique in Jewish religious history as the only woman regarded to have had a maggidim, an angelic spirit with the ability to foretell the future. A maggidim was, in accordance with belief, granted only to very select few among the highest scholars, and she was the only woman credited such. She is depicted as extremely wise and righteous, and made several famed prophesies.
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- Emily Taitz, Sondra Henry & Cheryl Tallan, The JPS Guide to Jewish Women: 600 B.C.E.to 1900 C.E., 2003
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