>> sifsei chachamim HIMSELF
hard to follow-up on that – except with the Ikar …
But the girls may be able to learn a LOT from siftei chachamim, in no particular order: he
wrote Masechet Derech Eretz – not about tzniyut, but about European roads and coins
was an entrepreneur (brought printing to the East)
married a young lady in his old age
classified 2,200 Hebrew books
was arrested but released for his printing, based on a University of Prague Jesuit report
tried to improve German grammar that Jews used (sic!)
AND, most relevant to the topic:
suggested that German-Jewish Jews use Amsterdam Portuguese curriculum instead of whatever we were doing
(and this is just from a Wiki)