Reply To: Why Can't Women Get Modern Smicha and Become Rabbis?

notasheep and Daniel Rosen,

The roles you describe are general ones. But there are exceptions. And as charliehall wrote there have been exceptional women throughout the ages that were very learned and became promulgators of Torah. I am not advocating mandatory Gemara study for women, I am only saying that we should not say it is assur and if a truly qualified woman comes along and would like to become a Rabbi we should have no issue with it (absent the appearance of giving in to Conservative and Reform, which I am mulling over).