<div dir="ltr"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><div><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">I wrote</span></div>
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<div><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">In fact, the exceptions to the rule that "</span><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">mitzvos asei shehazman gerama nashim pturot" are few </span></div>
<div><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">indeed : pesach (sh'chitato vachilato), matza, kiddush on Shabbat, and simchat yom tov. See Rambam </span><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">AZ 12:3.</span></div>
<div><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">>></span></div><div>In an offlist communication, a chaver pointed out that I incorrectly omitted Hakhel from this list.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Although the Rambam in the Mishne Torah AZ 12:3, explicitly lists only 5 mitzvot as exceptions to the rule that "mitzvot ashe shehazman grama nashim pturot", there is some indication that there is a further category of time-bound positive mitzvot women are obligated in. </div>
<div>In his Sefer Hamizvot, mitzvot aseh 154-171, the Rambam list many mitzvot aseh </div><div><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">related to Shabbat, YK, and YT: To refrain from work on these days (each chag is a separate mitzva), to make kiddush on Shabbat, </span>to rid oneself of the possession of chometz,</div>
<div><span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "> sippur yetziat mitzrayim, to eat matza, and the mitzvot of sfirat haomer, daled minim, succa, and shofar. Regarding the last four mitzvot, the Rambam explicitly says that women are exempt. He says this about none of the other mitzvot in this group. We know that women are obligated in at least two of them (matza and kiddush hayom) and it does seem that the Rambam implies that women are obligated in the other ones as well. The Chinuch, who generally follows the Rambam, definitely holds this (See mitzva 297 and the Minchat Chinuch there) . Thus it is possible that RMB's reference to "numerous exceptions" to the general rule was </span>not as far off the mark as I indicated in my previous posting. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Saul Mashbaum</div></span></div>