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Based on this we can explain that although women are exempt from learning Torah, the Mechaber can still opine that they recite a birchas haTorah. This is because they are obligated in the mitzvah; just a different aspect of it. Anyone who is obligated in any aspect of the mitzvah can recite a berachah on the mitzvah.

(The opinion that women do not make berachos on mitzvos that they are exempt from is only according to Sephardic tradition. Ashkenazic women do make a berachah when they shake the lulav, eat in a sukkah, etc.)

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Rabbi Raphael Fuchs
Rabbi Fuchs learned in Yeshivas Toras Moshe, where he became a close talmid of Rav Michel Shurkin, shlit”a. While he was there he received semicha from Rav Zalman Nechemia Goldberg, shlit”a. He then learned in Mirrer Yeshiva in Brooklyn, and became a close talmid of Rav Shmuel Berenbaum, zt”l. Rabbi Fuchs received semicha from the Mirrer Yeshiva as well. After Rav Shmuel’s petira Rabbi Fuchs learned in Bais Hatalmud Kollel for six years. He is currently a Shoel Umaishiv in Yeshivas Beis Meir in Lakewood, and a Torah editor and weekly columnist at The Jewish Press.