[Avodah] Schooling for women (was 12 steps)

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 08:35:32AM +0200, Shoshana L. Boublil wrote:
: I must say that this has always bothered me. The idea that teaching
: women Yiddishkeit in an organized way is only b/c of "sha'at had'chak".

I didnt' understand it that way at all.

Rather, that one is obligated to teach a girl everything necessary for
her to become a frum woman someday. In most generations, that definition
onl included halakhah lema'aseh, some chumash, and little odds and ends.
With universal secular education providing competing ideologies, the
old definition includes teaching more. It's not a sha'as hadechaq,
it's a change in pesaq due to change in metzi'us.

: Even more so, after learning the G'mara that in the time of Chizkiya,
: when they checked, they couldn't find a "Tinok o Tinoket" who didn't
: know all Torah SheBe'al Peh including Tohorot.

Similarly, the generation after Menasheh haMelekh, needed to know for
themselves that the Torah was more attractive than Menasheh's AZ.

Tir'u beTov!
-mi

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