Torah Temimah (Bereishis 02:22.48) If you investigate the matter it seems that both understandings are correct. In other words the female has greater understanding and commonsense than the male and the intellect matures earlier. This is expressed by Rashi (Kesubos 50a) where he explains why girls start fasting at the age of 12 while boys wait until the age of 13 because girls develop intellectually earlier because they aren’t weakened by Torah study. That is because if the body is strengthened that also means the mind is strengthened.
So there's two ways to understand the headline of the post.
ReplyDelete1) Because women don't study Torah, they are instead granted early intellectual maturity
2) Torah study keeps you from intellectually maturing.
Of course, this would explain why, amongst the Reformatives, the girls have their bat mitzvah at 13 and not 12. Neither the boys or girls study Torah so they mature at the same time.
Hmmmm
Also, happy and healthy Purim!
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ReplyDeleteTalk about the Chazon Ish
he stood for Rav Kook's shiur in 1934.. cried when he heard he was ill.
very informative talk