I think it's a little misleading to say that " She began her education in a heder open to both boys and girls." True, she did go to school with her brother but it was not because the school had some policy about including girls but rather that her mother wanted one fewer child afoot at home and the kheyder seemed to have no official policies and just let her come. I believe her first husband's name was Shimen and not Shlomo.

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