Talmud for Berakhot 40:5
וחייבין בתפלה: דרחמי נינהו מהו דתימא הואיל וכתיב בה (תהלים נה, יח) ערב ובקר וצהרים כמצות עשה שהזמן גרמא דמי קמ"ל:
But they are under the obligation of Tefillah ; [obviously] because this is prayer! [not translated] But thou mightest say that since it is written thereby, "Evening and morning and at noonday" (Ps. lv. 18), it is like a command the observance of which depends upon a certain point of time [and women are exempt]; therefore it informs us [the obligation is theirs].
Jerusalem Talmud Berakhot
It is stated153Tosephta Berakhot 5:17, Babli Berakhot 20b, Sukkah 38a. The entire piece is found in Sukkah 3:11, Rosh Hashanah 3:9.: In truth, they said a woman may say Grace for her husband154He who does not know how to say Grace may listen to a companion recite Grace aloud. The Yerushalmi has no problem with women or slaves but for the Babli the question remains whether women may in fact recite Grace for males who have an obligation from the Torah, i. e., who actually ate their fill., a slave for his master, and a minor for his father. Did not Rebbi Aḥa say in the name of Rebbi Yose bar Nahoraï: All they said about a minor is for the latter’s education155The minor must be educated; there is an obligation on the father to teach him all religious obligations but the minor himself is not obligated and, by the previously mentioned principle, cannot perform any religious duty for others.? Explain it that he recites after him156The adult repeats word by word what the minor says, so the adult in fact has recited all benedictions., as we stated there157In some Tosephta collection no longer extant.: “He for whom a slave, a woman, or a minor were reading it, repeats after them what they are saying, and may it be a curse for him. In truth, they said there should be a curse on the man of twenty years who needs the child of ten.”
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