Sarah Bas Tovim (, lived in the late 17th and early 18th centuries) was a Ukrainian Jewish woman, author of Shloshe Shearim ("Three Portals") the most widely circulated of the tkhines, Yiddish-language prayer booklets intended mainly for Jewish women. Dovid Katz refers to Sarah as Sora bas Toyvim and refers to another of her works that have survived, Sheker ha-kheyn.

Born in the small town of Satanov in the Podolia region of Ukraine, she claimed descent from Rabbi Mordechai of Brisk.

See also

  • Yiddish language
  • Yiddish literature

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