Commentary for Bava Metzia 118:9

ואף ר"ג היה בא בספינה עמד עליו נחשול לטבעו אמר כמדומה לי שאין זה אלא בשביל ר"א בן הורקנוס עמד על רגליו ואמר רבונו של עולם גלוי וידוע לפניך שלא לכבודי עשיתי ולא לכבוד בית אבא עשיתי אלא לכבודך שלא ירבו מחלוקות בישראל נח הים מזעפו

Now a certain day happened to be New Moon, but she mistook a full month for a defective one.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Jewish months consist of either 30 days (full) or 29 (defective). Thinking that the previous month had consisted of 29 days, and that the 30th would be New Moon, she believed that R. Eliezer could not engage in these private prayers in any case, and relaxed her watch over him. But actually it was a full month, so that the 30th was an ordinary day, when these prayers are permitted. ');">¹⁵</span> Others say, a poor man came and stood at the door, and she took out some bread to him.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., she did not mistake the day, but was momentarily forced to leave her husband in order to give bread to a beggar. ');">¹⁶</span>

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