The number of mitzvot from the Torah for which men are chiyuv and women are patur is rather small — about a dozen or so, with the exact number depending on whether you count head and arm tefillin as one mitzvah or two, whether you count evening and morning shema as one or two. The difference in the number of mitzvot is greater when you compare male Yisraelim to male Kohanim. Are male Yisraelim Jewish? Similarly, farmers in Eretz Yisrael (men AND women!) are chayev in about two dozen more Torah mitzvot than all the rest of us. Does that mean that they are Jewish and we aren’t?
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