Midrash for Kiddushin 71:11
ובין לאביי ובין לרבא האי בנים אתם מאי דרשי ביה האי מיבעי לכדתניא בנים אתם לה' אלהיכם בזמן שאתם נוהגים מנהג בנים אתם קרוים בנים אין אתם נוהגים מנהג בנים אין אתם קרוים בנים דברי ר' יהודה
Raba said: This is Issi's reason, viz. , he learns [the applicability of] 'between your eyes' from phylacteries:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deut. XI, 18: and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes.');"><sup>11</sup></span> just as there, women are exempt, so here too, women are exempt.
Sifrei Devarim
(Ibid. 14:1) "Children are you to the L-rd your G-d": R. Yehudah says: When you deport yourselves as children, you are called "children"; when you do not deport yourselves as children, you are not called "children." R. Meir says: In either instance you are called "children," as it is written (Jeremiah 4:22) "They are foolish children," and (Ibid. 32:30) "children without faith," and (Isaiah 1:4) "seed of evildoers, perverse children," and (Hoshea 2:1) "Instead of being said of them, 'You are not My people,' it will be said of them 'children of the living G-d.'"
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