Quoting%20commentary for Kiddushin 68:9

אי הכי מצה והקהל נמי צריכי למאי צריכי בשלמא אי כתב רחמנא הקהל ולא כתב מצה ה"א נילף חמשה עשר חמשה עשר מחג הסוכות

While had the Divine Law written pilgrimage but not phylacteries, I would have reasoned, Let phylacteries be assimilated to mezuzah.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Since they are written together, and so women are liable to the former as to the latter.');">¹⁵</span> Thus both are necessary.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The reason why two verses which teach the same thing cannot illumine other precepts is that if they were meant to do so one only would be sufficient, for the second could be deduced; and similarly all other precepts. But this obviously does not hold good when each is necessary in itself; in that case, therefore, both together throw light upon other cases.');">¹⁶</span>

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