[Avodah] Life's Role / Gender Roles

[Ilana Elzufon]

R' Heshy Goodman claims that men are more suited for transcendant, abstract,
learning (like the floating yod), while women are more down to earth (the
firmly planted heh).

My experience with girls/women educated in the Israeli DL Torani system is
that they do not learn gemara, but learn lots of very abstract machshava -
Maharal, Rav Kook, Kuzari, Chassidus, etc. IMHO, gemara would have given
them a more clear, logical, feet-on-the-ground mode of thinking and
analyzing. All that machshava and no gemara too often translates into
floating fluff.

Yes, my own daughters are in that system, which has many wonderful aspects.
As RnSP has pointed out on Areivim, choosing educational institutions for
one's children always involves compromise.

- Ilana
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