A.
Ribabos
Efraim (2: 155) maintains that women are also included in the
prohibition of learning Torah during Tisha Beav, since they
also enjoy the learning and acquire Simcha. (See Nitei Gavriel 75:
3).
We
must add, the opinion of the
Maharsho (Taanis 30a) who opines that the reason for avoiding Torah
learning is ‘Hessech Hada’as’ or taking one’s mind off and
forgetting the Avelus and mourning of Tisha Beav. So women would be
included.
We
should also mention the ruling of Shulchan Aruch (O.H. 47: 14) that
women recite in the morning the brocho on the Torah. Magen Avrohom
and Beis Yosef mentions that the reason is that they have to learn
the mitzvos that pertain to them. (Biur
Halacha ibid.)
Rabbi
A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller and
Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit'a
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