There's a discussion out there about the whole Rabba thing. That's where women train to be halachic authorities and take leadership positions.
Why can't a woman gain the knowledge she wants without subverting what has been centuries of tradition. You want to know more? Know more. You want to share it with others, share it.
If a woman feels she needs to know more, she should know more, why does so much of what we do have to be broadcast to everyone?
It sounds funny coming from a blogger, especially one who in an endeavor to post 33 posts in one day was reduced to just sort posting a lot of what popped in her head.
That being said, in the twitter/facebook, etc universe there is overlap in the real world. Years ago it was just bumper stickers, and an occasional sign on your lawn. Today if something is happening to you everyone needs to know.
A new take on if a tree falls in the forest....
If you do something and don't post it on facebook, does it count?
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If people are learning this stuff, they might enjoy a formal program to do it with. The people against Rabba also can't provide a real argument against it in the way it stands right now: we all already have our female friends who we ask certain basic halachos from because we know they know the answers. If someone in my neighborhood has taken an intense course on something and I know that, I might ask her even if she's not a friend. That's not a century-of-traditions thing.
As in many areas though we need to see what it leads to - you don't really need a rabbi at all for religious functions in Judaism (unlike in other religions), we just have them at brises and bar mitzvahs and weddings because they know things. And of course if a woman knows all of it too there's no reason they can't officiate.
Annoying as it may be, the real issue, ultimately, is one of tznius: our women don't need to be at the top of the chuppah organizing things.
And it's also a function of basic tznius (not the button / skirt length type) that not everyone needs to know what you're learning or what you're thinking or what you know.
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