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AviraDeArah
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CS, there are two halachik reasons why we don’t teach Torah to women, and neither have anything to do with their domestic responsibilities or chazals time and place.

The first reason is that they make Torah into divrei havai.

The second reason, in the yerushalmi, is that they’re easier to persuade than men to do an averah, and Torah makes one able to be tricky if they choose, so that’s a dangerous combination.

My argument is according to the first reason. According to the 2nd reason, even exceptional women would not be allowed to learn, and we know what happened to beruriah in the end, and it was very much tied to that ability to persuade women. Actually, it could be for this reason that the rambam writes that no women who learn gemara have schar, because he (as is often the case) paskens like the yerushalmi and holds that even exceptional women cannot learn gemara.