Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Commentary for Moed Katan 27:5

ואמר רבה בר בר חנה אמר ר' אלעזר מ"ט כדי שלא יכנסו למשמרתן כשהן מנוולין הכא נמי כדי שלא יכנסו לרגל כשהן מנוולין

Now Rabbah B'Bar-Hana reporting R'Eleazar [as commenting on this] said: 'What is the reason [they may on Thursday]? So that they should not enter [on the duty of] their Ward in a state of untidiness'. Here also the reason is that they do not enter upon the festival in a state of untidiness.

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