Reply To: Simchas Torah and women

Ben Levi- Your premise is logical that men and women have different roles, and that we should all strive to do ratzon Hashem, but you make some conclusion that seem less, well, logical.

While I agree that women are the backbone of their husbands learning, that doesn’t mean they can’t learn, especially women who are not married. Why can’t they celebrate their own accomplishments in learning? And even if their only Torah role is that they’re their husbands backbone in learning, why isn’t that a cause for celebration? A man works hard to learn for the sake of Torah, and a women tries to assist her husband for the sake of Torah. They both act lishmah, and they both want to celebrate that accomplishment. Why is the man’s desire to dance Ratzon Hashem and not the womens? How in the world did you come up with the question “why should a woman want to dance?” They want to dance because they love Torah and want to celebrate their accomplishment in both learning and supporting their husbands in learning. That seems lishmah to me. That doesn’t seem to be a contradiction at all to Ratzon Hashem. How does a desire to celebrate the completion of the Torah that they helped facilitate in any way imply that they want to “switch sides?”