Commentary for Megillah 40:5

מאי ואומר וכ"ת משעלה עמוד השחר לאו יממא ומכי ערבא שמשא ליליא ואינהו מקדמי ומחשכי ת"ש (והיה) לנו הלילה משמר והיום מלאכה:

What is the point of the second quotation? — You might say that from the time of the first rising of the dawn it is not yet day, though from the time the sun begins to set it is already night and they rose early and stopped work late.Therefore come and hear: ” That in the night they may be a guard for us, and that we may work in the day.”

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