Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: to identify the main references to women in the Pentateuch; to demonstrate knowledge of the interpretations of the midrash, rishonim, and ba’alei musar of incidents involving women in the Torah, and to identify the textual sources of these interpretations; to recognize laws of the Torah that apply specifically to women; to understand how contemporary female traditional Orthodox Torah teachers interpret laws of the Torah which apply to women in a manner relevant and understandable to contemporary women; to demonstrate how learning about the women of the Torah reveals universal truths about women, Jewish women, male/female relationships, and marriage; and to apply the lessons learned from women of the Torah to contemporary situations.