Halakhah for Nedarim 70:6
ההיא זאת תורת היולדת בין פיקחת בין שוטה שכן אדם מביא קרבן על אשתו שוטה
YET HE MAY TEACH SCRIPTURE TO HIS SONS AND DAUGHTERS.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' From this we see that it was usual to teach the Bible to girls, in spite of the Talmudic deduction that daughters need not be educated (Kid. 30a). The opposition of R. Eliezer to teaching Torah to one's daughter (Sot. 20a: He who teaches his daughter Torah is as though he taught her lewdness) was probably directed against the teaching of the Oral Law, and the higher branches of study. [V. Maim. Yad. Talmud Torah, I, 13.] Yet even in respect of this, his view was not universally accepted, and Ben 'Azzai (a.l.) regarded it as a positive duty to teach Torah to one's daughters. The context shows that the reference is to the higher knowledge of Biblical law. In point of fact, there were learned women in Talmudic times e.g., Beruriah, wife of R. Meir (Pes. 62b). ');"><sup>6</sup></span>
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