Commentary for Berakhot 33:14
א"ל רב לר' חייא נשים במאי זכיין באקרויי בנייהו לבי כנישתא ובאתנויי גברייהו בי רבנן ונטרין לגברייהו עד דאתו מבי רבנן.
Rab asked R. Hiyya : Wherewith do women acquire merit? By sending their children to learn [Torah] in the Synagogue and their husbands to study in the schools of the Rabbis, and waiting for their husbands until they return from the schools of the Rabbis.
Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
Since they are exempted from many religions duties incumbent upon men. See fol. 20 b, p. 132.
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
The reference is to the Schools at a distance from their homes. The classic example is that of 'Akiba's wife who induced him to leave her to prosecute his studies, and he remained away twenty-four years. See Ketubot 62 b.
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