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Many girls feel that they are selling their spiritual side short by going so in depth in the secular world, and not as much in depth in the Torah world.

I have difficulty understanding that logic. This brings to mind a story I heard about Rabbi Soloveithchik of YU.

A lady came to him saying she feels as though it would give her great spiritual fulfillment to be able to wear a Tallis. He told her that before she take on herself to start wearing one, she should first try it out without the tzitzis attached for a week and see how she feels.

She comes back a week later and tells him that it really gave her the fulfillment she was looking for and he explained to her how she proved it was all in her head.

To me it makes more sense for a women who feels that she is getting to much secularism in her, to balance it out by doing the ruchniyusdig things that are noyge’ah a women. Like saying Tehillim or learning tz’ena u’rena or hilchos tzniyus. According to the GRA the ikkur schar a women gets is not from learning Torah but from her tzniyus. I would have thought it would make more sense to focus on that above anything else.