Commentary for Pesachim 181:16

אמר ליה מי עבדינן חבורה שכולה נשים והתנן אין עושין חבורת נשים ועבדים וקטנים מאי לאו נשים לחודייהו ועבדים לחודייהו וקטנים לחודייהו אמר ליה לא נשים ועבדים וקטנים נשים ועבדים משום תפלות קטנים ועבדים משום

Now according to R'Jose, whence [does he know] that its purpose is for what R'Simeon said: perhaps it comes for what was stated by R'Judah? - He can tell you: you cannot think so, for surely it is written, according to every man's eating.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XII, 4. Thus the matter depends solely on ability to eat.');">¹⁶</span> R''Ukba B'Hinena of Parishna<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra 76a, p. 393, n. 6.');">¹⁷</span> pointed out a contradiction to Raba: Did then R'Judah Say: One may not kill the Paschal lamb for a single person? But the following contradicts it: [As to] a woman; at the First [Passover] one may slaughter for her separately, but at the second one makes her an addition to others: this is the view of R'Judah. - Said he to him, Do not Say, 'for her separately,' but 'for them separately.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This is not an emendation, but an explanation: 'for her separately' means that women need not necessarily join a company of men.');">¹⁸</span> Yet may we form a company consisting entirely of women? Surely we learned, ONE MAY NOT FORM A COMPANY OF WOMEN AND SLAVES AND MINORS. Does that not mean women separately and slaves separately and minors separately? - No, he replied, [it means] women and slaves and minors [together]. Women and slaves, on account of obscenity; minors and slaves, on account of

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