Halakhah for Kiddushin 69:8
וכל מצות לא תעשה וכו' מנהני מילי אמר רב יהודה אמר רב וכן תנא דבי ר' ישמעאל אמר קרא (במדבר ה, ו) איש או אשה כי יעשו מכל חטאת האדם השוה הכתוב אשה לאיש לכל עונשים שבתורה
and such do not illumine [others].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This is admitted by all. According to this, Abaye's contention that the precept of rejoicing relates to a woman's husband or her host (supra 34b) is rejected.');"><sup>15</sup></span> AND ALL NEGATIVE PRECEPTS etc. Whence do we know it? - Said Rab Judah in Rab's name, and the School of R'Ishmael taught likewise, Scripture saith, When a man or a woman shall commit any sin that men commit [. then that soul shall be guilty]:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Num. V, 6.');"><sup>16</sup></span>
Sefer HaChinukh
And [it] is practiced in every place and at all times by males and females. And even though rest on the festival is from the positive commandments determined by time - since there is also the prohibition of a negative commandment in the doing of work, women are liable for it from the principle that is in our hands (Kiddushin 35a): "'A man or a woman, if they do from any of the sins of a person' (Numbers 5:6) - the verse equated a man and a woman for all of the punishments in the Torah." And one who transgresses it and did work on this day has violated a positive commandment, besides that he violated a negative commandment, as we shall write in this Order (Sefer HaChinukh 323) with God's help.
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