Reply To: How can a woman get schar for learning Torah?

The promise the Holy One, blessed be He, made to the women is greater than the promise He made to the men. For it says, “You carefree women, attend, hear My words! You confident ladies, give ear to My speech!” (Yeshayahu 32:9)

Rav said to R. Chiya: How do women [for whom Torah study is not considered a paramount duty] earn a share in the world to come? By making their small children go to the synagogue [where they learn Torah], and by making their husbands go to the yeshivah to learn Mishnah, and by waiting for their husbands until they come home from the yeshivah.

The Gemora asks, since girls do not learn Torah “nashim b’mai zachyan – how do women get the merit of Torah?” and it answers, “By encouraging their husbands and children to learn in the Bais Medrash, and waiting for them to come home when they are there.” Rav Yonason Eyebushitz says that the Gemora means that women get the full extent of the benefits of Torah by supporting their husbands and children in their learning.

Note that the Gemora had no other answer as to how women merit Torah except this.