 These instructional stories are still read in highly religious communities, especially among the Hasidim.A commentary written for women on the weekly parashot by Rabbi Jacob ben Isaac Ashkenazi in 1616, the "Tseno Ureno" (צאנה וראינה), remains a ubiquitous book in Yiddish homes to this day.Women wrote old Yiddish literature infrequently, but several collections of tkhines (personal prayers which are not part of liturgy) were written by women such as Sara Bas-Tovim and Sarah Rebekah Rachel Leah Horowitz, both in the 18th century.