His mother was murdered by the Nazis, and two other sisters, Gittel and Devorah, died in Nazi concentration camps.

According to the Talmud there were also seven women who are counted as prophets whose message bears relevance for all generations: Sarah, Miriam, Devorah, Hannah ( mother of the prophet Samuel ), Abigail ( a wife of King David ), Huldah ( from the time of Jeremiah ), and Esther.

The readings from the King James Bible are " And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah.

:::: which he brought to his mother Leah.

Years later, Leah Rosenberg, Richler's mother, published an autobiography, The Errand Runner: Memoirs of a Rabbi's Daughter ( 1981 ), which discusses Mordecai's birth and upbringing, and the sometime difficult relationship between them.

When the show began she had four children, and when the show ended, she was the mother of eight children: Anthony ( Timothy Williams ), Serafina ( Leah Remini ), Gino ( Josh Lozoff ), Anne Marie ( Risa Littman ), Lucinda ( Sabrina Wiener ) ( all fathered by Nick Tortelli ), Ludlow ( Jarrett Lennon ) ( fathered by Frasier's mentor Dr. Bennett Ludlow ), and twins Elvis ( Danny Kramer ) and Jesse ( Thomas Tulak )

Leah ( Leˀa ; from Akkadian cow ), as described in the Hebrew Bible, is the first of the two concurrent wives of the Hebrew patriarch Jacob and mother of ten of sons whose descendants became the Twelve Tribes of Israel, along with at least one daughter, Dinah.

Leah is the mother of six of Jacob's sons, including his first four ( Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah ), and later two more ( Issachar and Zebulun ), and a daughter ( Dinah ).

In February 1979 Tina ( who was pregnant ), the children and her mother Leah Hicks-Manning were all killed in a fire at her parents ' house on the Duck Valley Reservation.

Act 2: On the day of her wedding, Leah ' le goes to the graveyard, for the purpose of inviting the spirit of her dead mother to attend the wedding.

However, some of these sources argue that Reuben hadn't actually had sexual activity with Bilhah, but instead had simply supported the cause of his mother Leah, by harming that of Bilhah, angering Jacob ; in these sources, it is argued that after the death of Rachel ( Jacob's favourite wife ), Jacob had attempted to move Bilhah's bed close to him, so Reuben moved it away.

His mother Leah Tyrer, daughter of Dr. John Gamble, married Hon.

Leah Allan, mother of William Allan

His mother Mrs. Leah Tyrer Allan, the daughter of Dr. John Gamble, died at Toronto, October I7th, 1848, aged 58.

His mother, Leah Vallone, was a teacher and a Democratic State Committeewoman.

Genesis 29: 35 relates that Judah's mother — the matriarch Leah — named him Yehudah ( i. e. " Judah ") because she wanted to " praise God " for giving birth to so many sons: " She said, ' This time let me praise ( odeh אודה ) God ( יהוה ),' and named the child Judah ( Yehudah יהודה )", thus combining " praise " and " God " into one new name.

The name Ohel Leah commemorates Leah Sassoon, the mother of the Sassoon brothers Jacob, Edward, and Meyer who donated the land for building the Synagogue.

In Genesis 29, Leah is seen as being Jacob's first wife and the mother of seven of his children.

When she was 20 years old, her mother, the fashion designer and feminist activist Leah Hertz, died of cancer.

As with Duke and his vehicle dealership, Leah took charge of these businesses when her mother went into early retirement.

Leah offers to be a surrogate mother for them.

Lowery's father was a local attorney and oil investor who worked several years for the Pullman Corporation as a railroad agent ; his mother, Leah Thompson Hanks, was a concert pianist.

My brother and mother got no value from their religion when they died.

`` My father and mother died when I was two years old '', I said.

A Sterling Township family of six surviving children, whose mother died yesterday as the aftermath to a fire that also killed one of the children, found today they had the help of hundreds of neighbors and school friends.

Mrs. Eleanor Kowalski, 42, died yesterday afternoon in Holy Cross Hospital of burns suffered in a fire that followed a bottled gas explosion Saturday night at the flat of her widowed mother, Mrs. Mary Pankowski, in the adjoining suburb of Warren.

First, it came out after Mr. Cooper's will was settled -- he had died the year before -- that John and his mother weren't rich any more.

John's mother died not long after his marriage, and there was even less Cooper money left.

In Indiana, when Lincoln was nine, his mother Nancy died of milk sickness in 1818.

After the death of Lincoln's mother, his older sister, Sarah, took charge of caring for him until their father remarried in 1819 ; Sarah later died in her 20s while giving birth to a stillborn son.

Huxley's mother died in 1908 when he was 14.

Their raids throughout the three parts of Gaul were traumatic: Gregory of Tours ( died ca 594 ) mentions their destructive force at the time of Valerian and Gallienus ( 253 – 260 ), when the Alemanni assembled under their " king ", whom he calls Chrocus, who " by the advice, it is said, of his wicked mother, and overran the whole of the Gauls, and destroyed from their foundations all the temples which had been built in ancient times.

Aga Khan I's mother later moved to India where she died in 1851.

Ammonius ' father, Hermias, died when he was a child, and his mother, Aedesia, raised him and his brother, Heliodorus, in Alexandria.

In 1180 the Emperor Manuel died and was succeeded by his ten year old son Alexios II, who was under the guardianship of his mother, Empress Maria.

As his mother crossed the threshold of the door on her return, the youth died, and " all Israel mourned for him.

Dürer's father died in 1502, and his mother died in 1513.

However, Otto died the same year, and although both mother and grandmother were appointed as co-regents for the child-king, Otto III, Theophano forced Adelaide to abdicate and exiled her.

Meanwhile his father died and his mother was cast into poverty in Corsica, still having four children to support.

His mother died on his 12th birthday, and his father, a country solicitor, later remarried, to an elder cousin, Lucy, in 1873.

His father died in 1989 of a heart attack and his mother died in 2002 of cancer.

After Rupert Potter died in 1914, Potter, now a wealthy woman, found Lindeth Howe, a large house in nearby Windermere where her mother lived until her death in 1931 at the age of 93.

The tales sometimes recounted that the woman, though called a fairy, was a ghost, often of a specific murdered woman, or a mother who died in childbirth.

Before he graduated from DeWitt Clinton, his mother died of a cerebral hemorrhage.