Sarah Rivqah Raḥel Leah Horowitz (1715–1795), known as Leah Horowitz, was a rabbinic and kabbalistic scholar. She was the author of the Teḥinah Imahot (Supplication of the Matriarchs) in Aramaic and Yiddish, introduced in Hebrew with an argument on the legitimacy of Jewish women's prayer. She lived in Bolechów, Poland. was a descendant of a family that had distinguished rabbis and scholars in its ranks for centuries. Her father, Ya‘akov ben Me’ir Horovitz (1680–1755), was the rabbi of Bolechów and later of Brody, where he was also a member of the elite kloyz (circle) of scholar-mystics. Three of Leah’s five brothers also functioned as rabbis. While living as a young married woman in her brother’s household in Bolechów—he had succeeded his father as rabbi—Leah gained a considerable and unusual reputation as a learned scholar among Jewish women in her time. The memoirist Ber Birkenthal (Ber of Bolechów) recounted how Horovitz regularly helped him with difficult Talmudic problems as he awaited his lessons with her brother. Leah was married twice, first to Aryeh Leib, son of the rabbi of Dobromil, and then to Shabetai ben Binyamin Rapoport, the rabbi of Krasny. (from her article in the YIVO Encyclopedia)