פירוש על מלכים ב 22:14

To Chuldoh. Our Rabbis said that because a woman is more merciful than a man,⁴They therefore hoped she would beseech God for mercy, that He change the evil decree to a favorable one.—Maharsha in Maseches Megillah 12b he, therefore, did not send to Yirmiyohu [to inquire]. Others say that Yirmiyohu was not there because he went to bring back the ten tribes.⁵See Maseches Megillah 14b and Rashi there.

she dwelt in Jerusalem in the second quarter: Targum Yonatan reads, "in the second district in the house of study."

In the study house. [Targum Yonoson rendered,] in the study⁶שנה[=study] house. There is a gate in the Temple courtyard, named "the Gate of Chuldoh" [as stated] in Maseches Midos.⁷1:3; according to that Mishnah the two Gates of Chuldoh led to the Temple Mount. Others interpret "במשנה" as "outside the wall/' [i.e.,] between the two walls, which are double⁸משנה [=double] as in “a double portion [=משנה] of food” in Shemos 16:22. [around] the city. (במשנה [i.e.,] she was teaching the Oral Law to the elders of the generation, i.e., the Mishnah. An annotation of Rabbi Akiva.) In the study house. (From, "These are the words,"⁹Devarim1:1. until "before the eyes of all Yisroel,"¹⁰Ibid. 33-12. ¹¹She expounded on Chumash Devarim which is known as Mishnah Torah [=משנה תורה] because many topics from other Chumashim are repeated in it. i.e., the Book of Devarim, also known as Misheh Torah, and likewise all the things that are repeated in the Torah, she expounded on in public, and she revealed the punishments and the exiles which were doubled for those who transgress the secrets and the allusions of the Torah. The Secret of Righteousness.)