- Q. Is it true that there are opinions that the shiurim (amounts) for the eating of mitzvos and benching, are different for women than men?
A. Surprisingly! true indeed. Shita Mekubetzes (Kesubos 64b) quotes Talmidei Rabeinu Yonah opinion that since women don’t engage in hard physical work as men do, their amounts of food required are less and that affects also the requirement for mitzva compliance.
See also Noda Beyehuda (1: O.H. 37), That deals with this issue.
However the real practical established Halacha, is that there is no difference at all.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by, Horav Yaakov Hirschman, Horav Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit'a
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