Beraisa - question: What are examples of positive Mitzvos that are not time-bound?

Answer: Returning a lost article, sending away the mother bird, building a fence on a roof, Tzitzis.

R. Shimon exempts women from Tzitzis as it is time-bound.

R. Shimon to Rabbanan: Do you not agree that it is time-bound, as night garments are exempt from Tzitzis...?

R. Hila: The Rabbanan would respond that if those garments would be intended for both day and night, they would be obligated in Tzitzis.

R. Elazar: A Pesach offering of women is obligatory and its service overrides Shabbos.

R. Yaakov bar Acha citing R. Elazar: The Pesach offering of women and slaves is optional and it does not override Shabbos.

Question: Do women have a Torah obligation to eat Matzoh on the night of Pesach?

Answer: It is a (Torah) obligation.

R. Zeira: It is actually a dispute. (The one who obligates them in the Pesach offering also obligates them in Matzoh and the one who exempts them from the Pesach offering exempts them from Matzoh.)

R. Hila: All agree that they are obligated.

Each of these opinions have a Beraisa to support them...

Beraisa (that supports R. Zeira): Maror, Matzah and Pesach on the first night are an obligation and throughout the other days are optional.

R. Shimon: It is obligatory for men and optional for women.

Beraisa (that supports R. Hila): The pasuk states (Devarim 16, 3), "You shall not eat with it (the Pesach offering) leaven.'' and then it says, "for seven days you shall eat Matzos, poor man's bread'' - whoever may not eat leaven is obligated to eat Matzah. Since women may not eat leaven, they are obligated to eat Matzah.

Question: Isn't there a rule that women are exempt from positive time-bound Mitzvos?

Answer (R. Mana): This positive Mitzvah is stringent as it comes through a negative Mitzvah; this follows the opinion that the Pesach offering of women is optional (otherwise, why do we need the Hekesh above - in (l)?)

Beraisa (R. Meir): A woman may bring her own Pesach Rishon (the Pesach offering sacrificed on 14th of Nisan) but she can only join others to bring the Pesach Sheni (brought on 14th of Iyar by people who were Tameh or too far away to bring a Pesach offering on 14th of Nisan).

R. Yosi: A woman may bring even her own Pesach Sheni offering.

R. Elazar bei R. Shimon: A woman may only join others to bring the Pesach Rishon and she does not bring a Pesach Sheni offering.

Question: What is R. Meir's source for his opinion?

Answer: The pasuk states (Shemos 12, 3), "...each man, a lamb/kid for each father's house'', and if they wish, they may also bring "for the household'' (i.e. a woman).

Question: What is R. Yosi's source for his opinion?

Answer: "...each man, a lamb/kid for each father's house'' and certainly "for the household'' i.e. a woman, meaning that she can bring her own Pesach Sheni offering.

Question: What is R. Elazer bei R. Shimon's source for his opinion?

Answer: The pasuk says the word "(each) man'', meaning not a woman.

Question: How do Rabbanan use the word "man''?

Answer: It excludes a child (who became an adult between Pesach Rishon and Pesach Sheni).

R. Yona: Even according to the opinion that a woman is obligated in Pesach Rishon and that Pesach Sheni is optional, this case is exceptional - since it is a public act, we do not want people to take it on as an obligation.