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  Leah
The biblical matriarch Leah was the wife of Jacob and the mother of six of the twelve tribes: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar and Zebulun.
Leah was the oldest daughter of Laban, Rebekah’s brother.
Leah left as her legacy half of the 12 tribes, including Judah, father of the monarchy, and Levi, father of the priesthood.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Leah.html   (494 words)

  
 Barbara Kingsolver
Rachel wore her green linen Easter suit she was so vain of, and her long whitish hair pulled off her forehead with a wide pink elastic hairband.
Rachel is fifteen--or as she would put it, going on sixteen--and cares for naught but appearances.
Her full Christian name is Rachel Rebeccah, so she feels free to take after Rebekah the virgin at the well, who is said in Genesis to be "a damsel most fair" and was offered marriage presents of golden earbobs right off the bat, when Abraham's servant spied her fetching up the water.
www.kingsolver.com /bookshelf/poisonwood_bible.asp   (2384 words)

  
 The Sefer Torah Recycling Network
Public is Invited: New Torah Scroll at Rachel“s Tomb and Parsha Chukas: Chait, Rectification, Unity and Rachel Imeinu.
It was dedicated by Evelyn Haies in Memory of Her Two Rachels, Rachel Rabinowitz Solomon, mother of Evelyn's Father Samuel and Rachel Kempinsky Dickstein, mother of Evelyn's Mother Marion.
Rachel "...performed an act of kindness for her, was not jealous of her, and did not expose her to shame.
www.sefer-torah.com /rachel-child.htm   (2075 words)

  
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In addition, her poems have also been translated and published in journals in several other languages, including: Swedish, Norwegian, Italian, Greek, Japanese, Korean, German, Gujarati, and Bengali.
She has published two books of translations of the Israeli poet: Shin Shalom, and other major classical Israeli poets, including: Rachel, Leah Goldberg, Yehuda Amichai, and Amir Gilboa.
Her latest two collections of poetry: You and I Can Change The World (2000), and The Pomegranate (2002), hail the new millennium as one in which, according to her: "A world beyond war can indeed be created, if humankind begin to listen to writers and poets for a change."
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