[Avodah] Why are women exempt from positive time-bound mitzvot? Is this a matter of identity?

[Akiva Miller]

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"Mitzvos Aseh Shehazman Grama" has so many exceptions and details, and
those exceptions and details have their own exceptions and details... A
long time ago, I gave up trying to find a systematic set of rules for which
mitzvos apply to women.

It's a "siman/sibah" thing, I think. There are too many exceptions for Zman
Grama to be the sibah why women are exempt, but it is a handy siman for
recognizing them.

Part of me feels guilty about this shoulder-shrugging, but maybe I can
compare it to the chevra's thus-far-failed attempts to find an algorithm
for how to pasken. Many (most?) of the rules are intuitive (read: learned
over decades of shimush) and even the experts are at a loss to articulate
them.

Akiva Miller
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