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in accordance with the opinion of R' Yosei, who said: It is optional for women to place their hands on the head of a sacrificial animal before it is slaughtered. Although only men have this obligation, women may perform that rite if they wish. Similarly, women may perform other mitzvot that they ha
As, if you do not say so, that this tanna holds in accordance with the opinion of R' Yosei, the baraita states that Jonah’s wife would ascend to Jerusalem for the Festival pilgrimage and the rabbis did not reprimand her. Is there anyone who says that the mitzva of Festival pilgrimage is not a time-
Rather, who is the tanna who maintains that Shabbat is a time for tefillin? It is this tanna who taught the halakha, as it was taught in the Tosefta: One who finds tefillin brings them in pair by pair, whether the finder is a man or whether she is a woman, and whether the tefillin are new or wheth
Analysis of this Tosefta indicates that R' Meir and R' Yehuda disagree only with regard to the issue of new tefillin and old ones; however, with regard to a woman bringing in the tefillin, they do not disagree that it is permitted. Learn from it that this tanna maintains that donning tefillin is a p
The Talmud attempts to refute this. But perhaps that tanna holds in accordance with the opinion of R' Yosei, who said: It is optional for women to place their hands on the head of a sacrificial animal before it is slaughtered. Here too, perhaps it is optional for women to don tefillin. The Talmud a