On the same page: first ever group of women complete full Talmud study
and speaking of the siyum hashas, the women have been given honorable mention at all the siyum events for supporting their husbands, encouraging their husbands to learn, etc. I wonder if at this siyum, of women who actually finished shas themselves, if they gave honorable mention to their husbands for their support and encouragement...
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While the item is itself incredible, I would refrain from making 'first-ever' claims. I have no doubt that somewhere, sometime, a group of women have finished the Shas.
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perhaps. maybe they should have described it as the first known siyum hashas by women, or the first documented...
ReplyDeleteBy the way, Malke Bina is the daughter of Rav Baruch Milikovsky, z"l, my tenth grade religious studies teacher at the Talmudical Academy Hebrew Day School in Baltimore. Rav Milikovsky was one of the Mir Yeshivah students who fled Europe to Shanghai with the Yeshiva during World War Two, and I believe that he used to learn the Daf Yomi.
ReplyDeleteAlso: Here in Bet Shemesh there is a women's Daf Yomi Shiur, but I do not know whether they have been going since the previous Siyyum seven and a half years ago.