Celebrate 50 years of Pardes with a series of shiurim led by long-time Pardes faculty members.
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Women and Time-Bound Commandments
Featuring Rav Meir Schweiger
From our June 6, 2023 Shiur
The Mishnah, in Tractate Kiddushin, (Chapter 1, Mishna 7) states that women are exempt from time-bound positive commandments.
Is this an absolute rule? Does exempt mean not obligated or does it mean forbidden? Why is there a distinction made between men and women?
In our session, we will examine several Talmudic and post-Talmudic sources that unpack these questions and present a much more complex and nuanced picture. As we analyze these sources, we will see the many exceptions to the rule, which call into question the value of having such a rule. This will bring us back full circle to the Mishnaic principle and lead us to explore what may have been the Rabbinic thinking behind it. In this class we will learn an original approach that does not appear in classic rabbinic discussions on this topic.