Hayom Yom 25 Menachem Av - The merit of women in the study of Torah

The daily Hayom Yom with Rabbi Yosef Katzman

אַאַמוּ"ר כּוֹתֵב בְּאֶחָד מִמִּכְתָּבָיו

My revered father, [the Rebbe Rashab,] writes in a letter:

שָׁמַעְתִּי בְּשֵׁם כְּבוֹד קְדוּשַׁת אֲבוֹתֵינוּ הַקְּדוֹשִׁים

“I heard in the name of our forerunners — the Rebbeim,

זֵכֶר צַדִּיקִים וּקְדוֹשִׁים לִבְרָכָה לְחַיֵּי הָעוֹלָם הַבָּא, נִשְׁמוֹתֵיהֶם עֵדֶן, זְכוּתָם יָגֵן עָלֵינוּ

of blessed memory —

שֶׁגַּם עַל בַּת צָרִיךְ לוֹמַר לְתּוֹרָה (וּלְחוּפָּה וּלְמַעֲשִׂים טוֹבִים)

that for a daughter, too, [in the prayer that is offered when the father of a newborn child is called to the Reading of the Torah, we ask that the parents should be blessed with success in raising her] ‘to Torah,’ and [not only] ‘to marriage, and to good deeds.’

עַל פִּי מַה שֶׁאָמְרוּ רַזַ"ל (בְּרָכוֹת יז. א)

For our Sages state (Berachos 17a):

נָשֵׁי בְּמַאי זָכְיָן בְּאִיקְרוֹי כו' וּבְאִתְנוֹי כו' וְנָטְרִין כו

‘By virtue of what do women earn merit? By seeing to it that their children attend the synagogue to study the Written Law, and that their husbands study the Oral Law in the house of the Sages, and by waiting for their husbands until they return from the house of the Sages.’”

Text and Translation courtesy of Sichos in English

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