[Avodah] Rav Shimon Schwab on Women Learning Torah

[Micha Berger via Avodah]

On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 09:02:18PM -0500, Michael Poppers via Avodah wrote:
: RnCL conflates RSS z'l' writing that women do not have the mitzvah of
: Talmud Torah with a position not espoused by RSS, that women would gain no
: sachar from learning...

Actually, the quoted statement was that women to not gain yir'as Shamayim
by learning nor would it prepare them for nevu'ah.

Eg:
    Only because talmud Torah is a mitzvah, a positive commandment for
    man, can it be a means to connect to Hashem and thereby increase his
    yiras Shamayim. Because a woman has no specific mitzvah of talmud
    Torah, she cannot utilize it as a means to increase her many ways
    of connection to Hashem.

In a stereotypical chassidishe hashkafah, deveiqus would be everything,
and this would make it very hard to justify sekhar from something does
nothing for her connection to Hashem.

However, RSS is neither a stereotype nor a chassid. And one can get
close to the ideal Mentch-Yisrael in ways other than that connection.

So I agree with RMP in substance: RSS doesn't actually rule out the Ran's
statement about her getting sekhar for learning.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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