[Avodah] Rav Shimon Schwab on Women Learning Torah

Ben Waxman via Avodah avodah at lists.aishdas.org
Tue Feb 2 19:42:04 PST 2016


In addition to everything that Reb Sero wrote (with which I agree), the 
Rambam writes that a navi has to have mastered his middot and overcome 
his desires. Does Rav Schwab believe that a woman can do these without 
learning Torah? That would be a huge chiddush.

Ben


On 2/2/2016 11:30 PM, Zev Sero via Avodah wrote:
> The most basic requirement to be capable of prophecy is to be a chacham,
> gadol bechochma [...] baal deah rechava nechona ad me'od [...] yikanes
> lapardes [...]
>
> There's no specific mention of Torah, but since Torah is Hashem's chochma
> how can one be a chacham without it?
>
>




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