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Talmud for girls is an expanding field in Israel. At the adult level, I
am responsible for teaching Talmudic methodology to young women at Bar
Ilan University's Talmud department, and I have developed a skills-based
method to move them along quickly. As far as elementary schools and
junior and senior high schools are concerned, the critical element is not
how much is learned, but whether the learning progresses along a spiral
curriculum as in any normal subject, including gradually increasing
levels of difficulty and skills. First Mishnah, then parallel sources
to Mishnah - not Gemara, then Gemara in two phases. See my article in
Religious Education, Winter, 1997, for a description of the basic
approach.
Pinchas Hayman</HTML>
