Halakhah zu Zechariah 9:11
גַּם־אַ֣תְּ בְּדַם־בְּרִיתֵ֗ךְ שִׁלַּ֤חְתִּי אֲסִירַ֙יִךְ֙ מִבּ֔וֹר אֵ֥ין מַ֖יִם בּֽוֹ׃
Was dich betrifft, so sende ich deine Gefangenen wegen des Blutes deines Bundes aus der Grube, in der kein Wasser ist.
Sefer HaMitzvot
Behold it has been made clear to you that from these sixty definite commandments, there are forty-six commandments that women are also obligated, and fourteen that women are not obligated. And the mnemonic for these definite commandments will be, "Sixty are the queens" (Song of Songs 6:8). And the mnemonic for the lessening of fourteen for the women will be, "the might (yad, the letters of which have a numerical value of fourteen) is gone" (Deuteronomy 32:36). Or the mnemonic of the forty-six commandments of the women will be "As for you also, because of the blood (badam, the letters of which have a numerical value of forty-six) of your covenant, I have sent forth your prisoners" (Zechariah 9:11) - meaning, the obligation upon them is the number, badam; and that is a covenant that is definitely obligatory for women. And that is what I wanted to hint regarding the number of the positive commandments.
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