Commentary for Kiddushin 69:4
הניחא למ"ד שני כתובים הבאים כאחד אין מלמדין אלא למ"ד מלמדין מאי איכא למימר אמר רבא פפונאי ידעי לה לטעמא דהא מילתא
Now, that is well on the view that two verses with the same teaching do not illumine [others]: but on the view that they do, what can be said?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This is the conclusion of the objection introduced by 'furthermore', supra 34b.');"><sup>7</sup></span> - Said Raba, The Papunians<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., scholars of Papunia, between Bagdad and Pumbeditha, possibly on the River Papa, whence the name; Obermeyer, p. 242.');"><sup>8</sup></span> know the reason of this thing, and who is it?
Daf Shevui to Kiddushin
The Papunians, those from a place called Papuna, have another source for the exemption of women from all positive time-bound commandments. The verse in Exodus compares the Torah to tefillin. And since we know that women are exempt from tefillin (because tefillin is compared to Torah study), women are exempt from all such mitzvoth. And if they are exempt from time-bound commandments, they must be obligated in non-time bound ones.
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