Reply To: Clarification to mod and DaMoshe

Avira
“That also leads us to another question – if most women were incapable of gemara study in the times of chazal, when people were purer and holier, to the point where they would make it divrei havai…. today’s women are any better? We’ve only dropped in our madregos since then.”

Context is everything- at least to me. Back in the day, women were not obligated to spend years in school, and everyone had enough work to do from the crack of dawn till late at night, many just to survive. For a woman to be taught back in the day, with her mind multi tasking to get her many responsibilities and lacking the concentration and interest needed, was not a good thing according to Rabbi Eliezer.

Fortunately todays world is completely different for men and women alike (The average life span was about 50 not too long ago) and the leisure time and focus we have
should be put to good use (in addition to the fact we go to school.) were fortunately tasting the times when “לא י׳הי׳ה עסק כל העולם כולו אלא לדעת את ה׳ בלבד”.