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<DIV><FONT size=2>RTK writes: "</FONT><FONT size=3>For girls <BR>and women, it
is enough to learn halacha and hashkafa. They do not /need/ to
<BR>learn Gemara in order to have yiras Shamayim and dikduk
bemitzvos."</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>I don't know whether that's true. But I also don't know that the
purpose of learning gemara is to have yirat shmayim and dikduk bemitzvot.
Perhaps the reason men learn Torah (gemara) is because it is a mitzvah.
And an important one at that (v'talmud Torah keneged kulam). And, perhaps,
women also want to participate in this mitzvah that is the equivalent of all
other mitzvot for that reason and not because of yirat shamayim and dikduk
bemitzvot. Perhaps, MO encourages women to learn Torah at its highest
level just like it encourages women to hear shofar, bench lulav, eat in the
sukkah etc. etc. (and, according to MO Ashkenazim, with a beracha); that is, it
encourages women to perform as many mitzvot as they can even if they are not
commanded to perform them (like shofar etc.)</DIV>
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<DIV>Joseph Kaplan</DIV></BODY></HTML>