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Commentary on Sotah: On the Education of Girls
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Rabbi Eliezer said: Whoever teaches his daughter Torah teaches her indecency [m. Sotah 3:4] The rabbis wrote that this refers only to the Oral Torah; but the Written Torah—even though one should not…

Contributor:

Chofetz Chaim

Places:

Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1918

Subjects:

Education, Women, Oral Torah, Piety, Sin, Theology

Categories:

Theology
Magid mesharim (Speaker of Truth): Lessons from the Magid
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Is your excessive talk beneficial to you? [ . . . ] And do you consider it proper that you peruse the [weekly Pentateuchal] portion twice in Hebrew and…

Contributor:

Joseph Karo

Places:

Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)

Date:

1530s

Subjects:

Mysticism, Conversion, Women, Oral Torah, Torah study, (Auto)biography

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, (Auto)biography