The Jewish Attitude Towards Women Part 2 2008-07-30

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

okay so yesterday when we ended up winners being about two women learning Torah and women's learning in general I believe it's where we got up to and we mentioned that in the Zohar says that in the year 5600 1840 is when the gates of understanding are opened now continuing backtracking bits in that direction you know technology is a tremendous step great leap forward but obviously human beings are able to abuse technology in other words you can use as things have progressed so you there are things have been developed which are amazing and almost all of them have been abused in some way shape or form and that is because although in the intellectual perspective has developed in a certain direction it hasn't developed or if you want to say also the emotional direction has not developed it's not developed in the other direction meaning people have become more technically advanced but people have not become more intelligent in other words Aristotle or Newton were far greater than your average scientists today and that even though they knew not as much about the specific areas of specialization which scientists know about today as specialists but they had a much greater grasp of the total picture this is true also in learning Torah there is today far more knowledge in special ways than there was at the time the rezoning there has to be there's been a tremendous proliferation of Torah texts and to our knowledge but the perspective the holistic perspective which are Ishaan had and before that animal rennet Anna that is lacking that's why which we don't have as much

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