# 4362 Learning about Learning

Ribabos

Efraim (2: 155) maintains that women are also included in the

prohibition of learning Torah during Tisha Beav, since they

also enjoy the learning and acquire Simcha. (See Nitei Gavriel 75:

3).

We

must add, the opinion of the

Maharsho (Taanis 30a) who opines that the reason for avoiding Torah

learning is ‘Hessech Hada’as’ or taking one’s mind off and

forgetting the Avelus and mourning of Tisha Beav. So women would be

included.

We

should also mention the ruling of Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 47: 14) that

women recite in the morning the brocho on the Torah. Magen Avrohom

and Beis Yosef mentions that the reason is that they have to learn

the mitzvos that pertain to them. (Biur

Halacha ibid.)

Rabbi

Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller and

Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a