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  • The case refers to tefillin, which is a time-bound commandment because tefillin according to most rabbinic sages are not worn at night, on the Sabbath or festivals and women are exempt because of the law concerning Talmud Torah which is obligatory for men on the basis of Deuteronomy 11: 19, “Teach them to beneikhem …” where beneikhem is understood to include “your sons” and exclude “your daughters” (JT Berakhot 3: 3, 4c).

    Legal-Religious Status of the Jewish Female. leBeit Yoreh 2009

  • She and her siblings were reunited with their father in Baltimore in 1922, where Rose continued her Hebrew and Judaic studies in the Talmud Torah schools of South

    Narrator from Weaving Women's Words: Baltimore Stories 2010

  • When her oldest son reached kindergarten age in 1929, Bub realized that the conventional Talmud Torah education was not sufficient.

    We Remember - Mattie Levi Rotenberg, 1897 - 1989 2010

  • In addition to these schools there were also traditional educational institutions on the settlements — khadorim and Talmud Torah schools in which a melammed (teacher) would teach Jewish studies only, according to the customs of the communities that had come from Eastern Europe.

    Argentina: Jewish Education. 2009

  • Was the name Arthur Balfour ever mentioned in any version of the Talmud Torah?

    OpEdNews - Diary: Promised In the Talmud and Declared By Balfour 2009

  • The after-school communal Talmud Torah became the predominant mode of Jewish education and remained so until the synagogue school replaced it as the most popular form of American Jewish education in the mid-twentieth century.

    Hebrew Teachers Colleges in the United States. 2009

  • The growth of Hebrew teachers colleges would in time depend on the enrollment and education of girls and young women in the Talmud Torah system.

    Hebrew Teachers Colleges in the United States. 2009

  • Part of the uncertainty is due to phraseology in the prayer, for example, “in Your covenant which You sealed in our flesh and Your Torah which You taught us,” concerning circumcision and Talmud Torah, or “the land which [God] gave you,” concerning the biblical portions of the land of Israel.

    Legal-Religious Status of the Jewish Female. leBeit Yoreh 2009

  • According to King, “The large number of women who were prepared to undertake advanced Jewish education particularly in the 1920s probably reflected the growth in the number of Talmud Torah schools during this period … a system which attracted girls as well as boys.”

    Hebrew Teachers Colleges in the United States. 2009

  • Was the name Arthur Balfour ever mentioned in any version of the Talmud Torah?

    OpEdNews - Diary: Promised In the Talmud and Declared By Balfour 2009

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