[Avodah] Schooling for women

[Micha Berger]

On Wed, October 11, 2006 9:50 pm, kennethgmiller at juno.com wrote:
: The difference was in the manner or style of the learning. Men (who
: seem to be typified as outgoing) learn in a public setting - a shiur,
: a classroom, etc. Women (who seem to be typified as inward) learn one-
: on-one. This setup (in my understanding) lasted for many thousands of
: years, until women stopped being the homebodies that they had been
: previously, and they needed the more public sort of schooling to
: compete with the other influences that they began to encounter.

On inward vs outward, I compared RSRH's approach with RASoloveitchik's in the
vol 4 thread on "kol kevudah". See <http://tinyurl.com/y54a2a> and surrounding
subject lines from the index.

But I don't see how this distinction is relevent. The mishnah reads "kol
hamelameid bito Torah", which doesn't sound like its limiting itself to a
public setting; quite the reverse.

Tir'u beTov!
-mi

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