Commentary for Berakhot 40:8
אמר רב אדא בר אהבה נשים חייבות בקדוש היום דבר תורה אמאי מצות עשה שהזמן גרמא הוא וכל מצות עשה שהזמן גרמא נשים פטורות אמר אביי מדרבנן
Rab Adda b. Ahabah said : Women are under the obligation to recite the Sanctitication of the [Sabbath] day by the ordinance of the Torah. But why, since it is a command the observance of which is dependent upon a certain point of time, and women are exempt from all commands of this class ! Abbai answered : [The Sanctification by women] is a Rabbinical ordinance.
Rashi on Berakhot
consecration of the day … a positive commandment that is time-determined:Remember the Sabbath Day to consecrated it (Exodus): Remember it using wine. (Pesachim 106a)
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
See Singer, p. 124, Oesterley and Box, pp. 375 ff.
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