Halakhah for Pesachim 182:17

<big>מתני׳</big> אונן טובל ואוכל את פסחו לערב אבל לא בקדשים השומע על מתו

Hence [it must refer] to unleavened bread and bitter herbs. Then consider the sequel: R'Simeon said: In the case of men [it is] obligatory; in the case of women, voluntary. Does then R'Simeon not agree with R'Eleazar's dictum: Women are bound to eat unleavened bread by Scriptural law, for it is said, Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith:21 whoever is subject to, 'thou shalt eat no leavened bread,' is subject to [the law].' arise, eat unleavened bread'; and thes women, since they are subject to, 'thou shalt eat no leavened bread,' are also subject to [the law], 'arise, eat unleavened bread? ' - Rather say: The Passover-offering, unleavened bread, and bitter herbs are obligatory on the first [night]; from then onwards [the latter two] are voluntary. R'Simeon said: As for the Passover-offering, in the case of men it is obligatory, in the case of women it is voluntary. <big>MISHNAH: </big>AN ONEN PERFORMS TEBILLAH AND EATS HIS PASSOVER-OFFERING IN THE EVENING, BUT [HE MAY] NOT [PARTAKE] OF [OTHER] SACRIFICES.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' An onen may not eat the flesh of sacrifices (v. Lev. X. 19f) . By Scriptural law a man is an onen on the day of death only, but not at night; the Rabbis, however, extended these restrictions to the night too. Since, however, the Passover-offering is a Scriptural obligation, they waived their prohibition in respect of the night, and hence he may eat thereof. He is not unclean, but requires tebillah to emphasize that until the evening sacred flesh was forbidden to him, whereas now it is permitted. In respect of other sacrifices the Rabbinical law stands, and he may not partake of them.');">22 ONE WHO HEARS ABOUT HIS DEAD [FOR THE FIRST TIME],23

Sefer HaMitzvot

That is that He commanded us to slaughter the Pesach-offering on the fourteenth of Nissan in the afternoon. And one who transgresses this command and does not sacrifice it in its time is liable for excision - whether it is a man or a woman. And it has already been explained in the Gemara (Pesachim 91b) that the first Pesach is a commandment [also] for women and that it pushes off the Shabbat. That means to say, its sacrifice must be on the fourteenth [even when it] comes out on a Shabbat, [for women] - just like for every Jewish man. And the Torah's language about the liability for excision is His saying, "and refrains from offering the Pesach-offering, that person shall be cut off" (Numbers 9:13). And at the beginning of Keritot (Keritot 2a) when it lists the commandments for which one who transgresses them becomes liable for excision - and they are all negative commandments - it says, "And the Pesach-offering and circumcision, among the positive commandments." And we already mentioned this in the introduction (Sefer HaMitzvot, Shorashim 14). And this commandment has already been explained in Pesachim. (See Parashat Bo; Mishneh Torah, Paschal Offering 1.)

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