HaLeiVi -“Health, so you do believe that if a woman is physically washed out but mentally alert, she should or could learn?”
I personally hold that it’s Ossur for women to learn Torah SheBaal Peh, like it says in the S’A. I was talking acc. to those that permit it. Usually when s/o is washed out physically it affects them mentally. But if it happens to be that this isn’t the case, then yes acc. to those Shittos she can learn – provided she is able to keep all the side Dinim of how you have to learn.
“As a side note, I don’t recall a Halacha dictating which voluntary Mitzva that is not before you, you must do, other than the preferances in Tzadaka. Do you have an example in mind?”
These Halachos are brought down, I think, in Hilchos Talmud Torah.
“With your argument, you are negating any woman. But there were famous Melumados that we know, and probably a lot more that we don’t know of.”
I’m not negating anyone more than the S’A. Even acc. to the S’A who says women aren’t allowed to learn, there were these women in Jewish history that did. This is called an exception to the rule!