re: #241 PhillyPretzel

Here is a Talmudic scholar and (gasp, shock and “horror”) a woman. [Link: encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com…]

Bruriah is very famous. There are several girls’ yeshivot named after her today.

Hell, in seventeenth century Kurdistan, of all places, you get a famous lady Torah scholar, Asnat Barezani.