Charliehall: “Strictly speaking, there is no chiyuv even for *men* to learn gemara. It is just better to learn all the sources for the halachah if you want to be as careful as possible in mitzvot and that applies to men and women.”
[and hence connecting to God] with each word of Torah that they utter from their mouths while studying.
In addition one should be careful to draw a line between sincere criticism to feeling/expressing intolerance for other people. Just thought it might be appropriate to post this from a different CR thread: