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Bad Thoughts

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2. In essence, women have "other responsibilities"

Reply to dipsydoodle (Reply #1)

Thu Jun 6, 2013, 06:36 AM

Jun 2013

I don't think that there is an outright prohibition, but rather an attitude--the product of numerous opinions from various texts, including the Talmud--that women's religious learning would divert them from household responsibilities. Men were not likely to allow women to study at the shul, making it more of a men's club.

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