Joodse traditie als permanent leren

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((Payment for Adult Teaching))

246.5. In places where it is customary, one may teach the Torah for remuneration; but it is forbidden to teach Mishnah and Talmud for pay. However, if a man cannot find anyone to teach him free, he may pay for instruction. Although he may have been compelled to pay for his instruction, he must not say, just as I have learned and paid for my learning, so will I teach for pay; he must be willing to teach others free. Since it is nowadays the custom to pay for teaching, the teacher may receive payment if he have no other means of livelihood. Even if he has means, he is allowed to take payment for his teaching in lieu of the business opportunities and other opportunities of earning money which he renounces for teaching.

All later authorities allow the teacher to receive payment for teaching.

246.6. A woman who has studied Torah is meritorious, but not in the same measure as a man, because she does so at will not in response to a command. Although through study of the Torah she attains a reward, the Rabbis directed that a man should not teach Torah to his daughter, because most women have not a mind adapted to such instruction, and they would be apt to lose a sense of proportion on account of their deficient understanding. The Rabbis further said that anyone who teaches his daughter Torah is as if he is teaching her folly. When they said this, they referred to the difficulties of the oral Law; but in the case of the Bible, although the father need not teach his daughter, if he has taught her, it is not as though he taught her folly.

In any case, a woman must learn the laws affecting women. She is not bound to teach her son Torah; but if she helps her son or her husband, enabling them to study Torah, she shares the reward with them.

((Moral Character of the Student))

246.7. We should not go on trying to teach Torah to a student who is unworthy (with reference to Prov. 26:8). We must first try to change his disposition, put him on the right path, examine him, then bring him again to the House of Learning and teach him.