“it seems that the girls who volunteer to engage in Talmudic study, are not studying out of desire to personally experience the intellectual beauty of the Torah”
Based on what evidence do you make that statement? Do you know any women who study talmud?
” did the Rav endorse coed schools or allow them under given circumstances? “
He endorsed them (and girls learning T”S”B”P) in writing in a letter to Rabbi Leonard Rosenfeld in 1953. Before he responded he made Rabbi Rosenfeld agree that he would follow whatever The Rav said. Here is the letter:
“Dear Rabbi Rosenfeld:
Please accept my apologies for not answering your letters sooner. The delay was due to my overcrowded schedule. As to your question with regard to a curriculum in a coeducational school, I expressed my opinion to you long ago that it would be a very regrettable oversight on our part if we were to arrange separate Hebrew courses for girls. Not only is the teaching of Torah she-be-al peh to girls permissible but it is nowadays an absolute imperative. This policy of discrimination between the sexes as to subject matter and method of instruction which is still advocated by certain groups within our Orthodox community has contributed greatly to the deterioration and downfall of traditional Judaism. Boys and girls alike should be introduced to the inner halls of Torah she-be-al peh.
I hope to prepare in the near future a halakhic brief on the same problem which will exhaust the various aspects of the same. In the meantime I heartily endorse a uniform program for the entire student body. “
I’ll post a link if the moderator gives permission.
Unfortunately he never wrote that halachic brief, but the Rav’s position is clear. He had previously started a co-ed school in the Boston area, and later taught single sex talmud classes at YU. My own rabbi has indicated that the Rav was even more adamant on this issue.
“You will not find anywhere in all the halachic discussion in all of Shas a discussion about why Hashem created the world, why He cares if you are religious, or anything along those lines. If you must learn Gemora for that reason, learn Ain Yaakov”
Huh??? Where do you think Ain Yaakov comes from??? A third of the gemara is aggadata and a lot of it is philosophical!
“disregard a clear and unanimous halachah in Gemora and poskim”
Sorry, I just proved that it isn’t unanimous.