Solica – the Legendary Martyr from Morocco
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January 27, 2021
Jewish women in Morocco uttered her name with awe and admiration, pilgrims visit her tombstone in Fez to these days, almost two centuries after her death, and hundreds of poems, lamentations, piyyutim, essays and books in numerous languages were written about her. But Sol Hachuel is still a mystery. Was Sol Hachuel – Solica – a hasty teen whose one mistake costed her with her life? Was she a breath taking beautiful martyr, tangled up in a romantic affair which led to her decapitation at the age of 15 for “rida” – the sin of heresy in Islam? One fact[]
