Commentary for Pesachim 108:6

נימא מסייע ליה אין בין תשעה באב ליום הכיפורים אלא שזה ספיקו אסור וזה ספיקו מותר

R'SIMEON B. GAMALIEL SAID: A MAN MAY ALWAYS MAKE HIMSELF A SCHOLAR.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., he may abstain from work even if he is not a scholar.');">¹¹</span> <big><b>GEMARA: </b></big>Samuel said: There is no public fast in Babylonia save the Ninth of Ab alone.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., if a public fast is proclaimed, it does not commence on the previous evening, nor is work forbidden, even where it is the practice not to work on the Ninth of Ab. (The Day of Atonement, of course, stands in a different category entirely.) In the whole of the subsequent discussion 'public fast' does not mean one of the statutory fasts, but a fast proclaimed on account of drought or disaster etc.');">¹²</span> Shall we say that Samuel holds, [with regard to] the Ninth of Ab, its twilight is forbidden;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., it is forbidden to eat at twilight on the eve of the fast, since he regards the twilight as possessing the full rigours of a fast-day. Twilight is a period of doubt, and it is not certain whether it is day or night.');">¹³</span>

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