[Avodah] kiddush levana

[menucha]

The exception to women's exemption seems to be the Meiri.  Sanhedrin 42. 
where he does give  a shortened version for women and amei haaretz.
menucha

Eli Turkel wrote:

><<RnCL wrote:
>There seems to be (as far as I am aware) close to universal agreement
>that it is a rabbinic mitzvah aseh shehazman grama, and hence women
>are patur.>>
>
>I understood that some claim that it is not mitzvat aseh she-hazman
>grama. The argument is that one can say the bracha only when the moon
>is increasing in size and that happens only in the first half of the
>month. But it is not intrinsically connected to time in the same sense
>that shofar or lulav are connected.
>
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