Learned women/learned men

Platinum Member Joined: Sep 11 2004 Posts: 19241

for starters, I certainly did not learn in Yeshiva for the same amount of years that my husband did. and that's just the basic first step.

I know there are learned women and I admire them incredibly. but they are the minority.

Posted: Fri, Nov 10 2006, 12:30 am Post subject:

My husband is officially "Rabbi" but my education was in many ways superior to his. Plus I am innately more skilled in text reading of Hebrew. (My Aramaic is sparse.) When we learn together it is often me who explains things to him.

Platinum Member Joined: Jan 17 2005 Posts: 5505

[quote="carrot"](Ignorami?)[quote]

isnt that the japanese papermaking craft??? Laughing

Posted: Fri, Nov 10 2006, 6:50 am Post subject:

Platinum Member Joined: Sep 11 2004 Posts: 19241

carrot, do you think that's a very common scenario?

Posted: Fri, Nov 10 2006, 2:50 pm Post subject:

Not that uncommon. And not uncommon at all for husbands and wives to be on the same level, at least.

There are many men (especially Lubavitch) who get Semicha and they do not all of a sudden receive 50 extra I.Q. points or a bigger dose of common sense or good judgment. They are the same people they were before.

And anyway, I don't like the implication that just because we are women it must be that we don't know things. It isn't that way. If somebody doesn't know something it is not simply because she is a woman. It is because she didn't learn it or doesn't understand it, which is a situation that is not specific to the female condition.

Except in the sense that people think that girls don't need to learn much because they are only going to grow up to be women, and then surprise surprise the girls grow up and become women who don't know much, and that itself becomes proof that women are by definition ignorant.

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carrot!

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Platinum Member Joined: Sep 11 2004 Posts: 19241

Wow. That's not what I meant at all.

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Posted: Sun, Nov 12 2006, 1:47 am Post subject: re: learned women/learned men

Often the husband will know much more in religious topics, and the wife in secular topics.
Ok, I'm sure some guys manage to concile a Phd & serious Torah study, but a minority I think.