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Rabbi Reuven Ziegler, Tradition Fall 2010, “Understand the Years of Each Generation”: A Eulogy for Mori ve-Rabbi ha-Rav Yehuda Amital Zt”l p.81:

In 1995, I was present when R. Amital told a gathering of the kollel that he did not feel women needed to study Talmud; his grandmother and mother had been very pious Jews without it. A year or two later, he addressed a women’s learning program with the words, “You know, I used to think that Talmud study for women was unnecessary, but now I think it is absolutely essential!”