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It is a weekday morning and at Midreshet Lindenbaum, an Orthodox women's seminary in Talpiot, a handful of students in the Manhigot (women leaders) program - designed to give women tools in psika (religious ruling) - are sitting and learning Baba Metzia (a talmudic tractate) in the seminary's beit midrash.
Women study Talmud at Midreshet Linenbaum.
Photo: Ariel Jerozolimski
Down the road at Beit Morasha, a center for Jewish studies and leadership development, a group of women in the Halacha program are sitting in pairs learning Even Ha'ezer, part of the corpus of Jewish law. Not far away at Nishmat, a leading center for Jewish women's learning, students in the Keren Ariel program are learning the key halachic sources relating to family purity.
The three programs - each of which provides a select group of exceptional women scholars with the opportunity to reach the highest level of Jewish scholarship, often with the same curriculum as rabbinical schools - were created to address different needs within the modern Orthodox world and, arguably, are unprecedented in their attention to training women for involvement in halachic discourse and the application of Jewish law.
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For a discussion of R. Soloveitchik's view on women study of Talmud, see here p.82
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