1. Bruriah was the wife of Rabbi Meir, and the daughter of Rabbi Chananiah ben Teradyon, famous as one of the ten martyrs from the Roman period.
2. She was an immense scholar. The Talmud relates that she learned from the sages 300 laws in one day.
3. Bruriah was known to be very sharp in her answers. She did not hesitate to point out things to the sages when she saw fit.
4. Although her father was killed by the Romans for learning Torah, she didn’t stop studying Torah herself.
5. Bruriah would rebuke the apostates and shame them with her sharp and to the point answers.
6. Bruriah used to participate in Jewish legal discussions with scholars, and even disputed her father on the laws of purity and impurity. She was praised for her sharpness by Rabbi Judah ben Bava.
7. The Gemara relates that she would put on tefillin, and the Holy Ari explained the reason for that was that the root of her soul came from the almah d’duchra (“world of males”).
8. The Gemara also relates that Bruriah persuaded her husband to pray for their wicked and criminal neighbors to repent, instead of praying for their death.
9. Bruriah was extremely modest. It is related that she once rebuked Rabbi Yossi for speaking too much with her, because he had asked a question of four words that could have been said with two words.
10. There are two versions that describe Bruriah’s death. The first claims that she jumped to her death, and the other claims that she fled with her husband to Babylonia out of fear of the Roman regime.
