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From: Russell Hendel <rhendel@saber.towson.edu>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 07:47:24 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: RE: The Number of Commandments women are exempt from

Ben Katz v33n25 states
>>There are only 7 commandments that women are not obligated in,
most of which they have already accepted (eg shofar and succah).  The
two general exceptions are tzitzit and tefillin<<

Actually Rambam at the end of the Book of Commandments lists "those
**normal** commandments that a women is not liable in". There are about
14 (listed below) and in fact when one considers all 613 commandments
there are many more.

Here are the 14: shofar, succah, lulav, learning, tzitzith, head and arm
tefillin, saying the shma, reproduction, "blessings of the priest",
circumcision, writing/possessing a sefer torah,counting the omer, being
exempt from military conscription in the first year of marriage

In passing, this topic has been discussed several times in the past on
Mail Jewish with reasons given as to why people are exempt.

Russell Jay Hendel; Phd ASA
Dept of Math; Towson Univ
Moderator Rashi is Simple
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