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 magid, an angelic spirit with the ability to foretell the future. A magid 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.

See also

Rachel Aberlin

References

Emily Taitz, Sondra Henry & Cheryl Tallan, The JPS Guide to Jewish Women: 600 B.C.E.to 1900 C.E., 2003

People from Safed

16th-century Jews from the Ottoman Empire

16th-century religious leaders

Jewish mysticism

16th-century women from the Ottoman Empire

16th-century births

Sabbateans

Clairvoyants

Year of death unknown

Jewish women

Jews from Ottoman Palestine