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Me: Here is a fairly specific diagnosis of an issue with the "demand" for women's Gemara learning in a specific community, replete with specific evidence.
Frum men: Nuh-uh, because as a man in a yeshivish community, things aren't like that *at all*.
#NotAllFrumMen, of course.
Frum men: Nuh-uh, because as a man in a yeshivish community, things aren't like that *at all*.
#NotAllFrumMen, of course.
Of course I can be wrong. I'm wrong all the time. I never went to Stern or learned in GPATS or did any women's Gemara learning in a formal setting until last year.
But how is men's experience learning Gemara in the yeshivish world at all apposite here?
But how is men's experience learning Gemara in the yeshivish world at all apposite here?
Every single thing I'm talking about--sociocultural support, infrastructural support, money-where-mouth-is support, exists in spades. (I commend to your attention the dais at the Mir dinner.) And I didn't even engage what the support looks like within the family unit.
We are talking about, in the Centrist/MO world, what it would look like to create demand for high-level women's Torah Sheb'al Peh learning.
"Lot of accountants learn Gemara without it being their job."
Yes, dear. That would be the "sociocultural" and "infrastructural" support.
"Lot of accountants learn Gemara without it being their job."
Yes, dear. That would be the "sociocultural" and "infrastructural" support.
In a world in which women's learning isn't spoken about that way from middle school; in which women who learn are not praised but looked askance at; in which the opportunities in high school, Israel, and beyond aren't there; in which women who learn are less-desirable shidduchim,
(Started a thread this AM and then got busy with other things. Could delete, but leaving it dangling for now.)
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