Torah Temimah, Devarim chapter 11, note 48.
"And behold, we have seen fit to copy here at the end of the matter an ancient and precious book called 'Ma'ayan Ganim' [Responsa], authored by Rabbi Samuel son of Elhanan Jacob the Rakevalti (Vinitsia, 1613), regarding what he wrote to a wise woman concerning the permission for women to study Torah. He states in the continuation of the matter, and the saying of our sages: 'Whoever teaches his daughter Torah, it is as if he taught her frivolities.' Perhaps we can say that when a father teaches her in her youth, she will also be recognized by her deeds, whether they are pure or straight. Certainly, in this manner, there is concern that most women have light minds, wasting their time on trivial matters, and like them, they have sinned out of shortness of spirit. However, the women who have the heart to draw near to the work of the Lord, by choosing what is good in what is good, they will ascend on the mountain of the Lord and dwell in His holy place, for they are exemplary women. And the wise men of their generation should honor them, arrange for them, strengthen their hands, and empower their arms, etc. 'Do and succeed, and may Heaven assist you.' Thus is the end of the text. And it is not known to us who this esteemed author is, who stood to innovate this new law based on mere reasoning, and in Tosefta Yom Tov at the end of the tractate Tamid, he is mentioned and described as a meticulous scholar and the author of the book 'Arogat HaBosem' on the grammar of the Holy Language."
