Yalta (Talmudic character)

Yalta (Hebrew: ילתא, romanized: Yalta) is among the few named female characters mentioned in the Babylonian Talmud who was a member of a rabbinic family. Yalta was the wife of Rav Nachman, a rabbinic sage from around 250 CE. The scholar Judith Hauptman suggests that Yalta was also the daughter of the Jewish exilarch in Babylon and considers her depiction in rabbinic literature as a strong-willed, free-spirited woman. Yalta is the second most-mentioned woman in the Talmud, after the daughter of Rav Chisda, and appears to have been knowledgeable in matters of Jewish ritual law.

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