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charliehall
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” the concept of medical school certainly existed but in much more of an abstract way”

Not true; there were medical schools, not abstract but concrete, in ancient times and in the middle ages. Sforno got a medical degree from the University of Rome.

“It’s pashut that women cannot be Rabbis.”

No, there is no such pshat.

“Women have NEVER been Rabbis”

Regardless of what title you give them, Devorah and Beruriah would be of higher status than any rabbi alive today.

“argue with anonymous posters”

I’m not anonymous.

“We don’t know God as well as our sages did.”

True. And our sages interpreted the Torah to say that there are only about a dozen mitzvot for which men are chiyuv and women are patur — none of which are in the areas covered by yoreh yoreh semichah.