Commentary for Pesachim 187:1
לרב יהודה לא קשיא טמא שרץ רחמנא דחייה דכתיב (במדבר ט, י) איש איש כי יהיה טמא לנפש מי לא עסקינן שחל שביעי שלו להיות בערב הפסח ואפילו הכי אמר רחמנא לידחי
On Rab Judah's view there is no difficulty: When one is unclean through a reptile, the Divine Law relegated him [to the second Passover], for it is written, 'If any man shall be unclean by reason of a dead body': does this not refer [even] to one whose seventh day falls on the eve of Passover, yet even so the Divine Law said: Let him be relegated [to the second].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. supra ');"><sup>1</sup></span> Our Rabbis taught: If he was standing beyond Modi'im and is able to enter by horses and mules, you might think that he is culpable.
Tosafot on Pesachim
Rabbi Yehuda says: From sunset to dusk one can walk four mil - Rabbeinu Tam finds this difficult, since at the end of [the chapter named] "With what do we light" (Shabbat 34b) it says: "What is twilight? From sunset for the whole time that the eastern sky is red - these are the words of Rabbi Yehuda." They conclude there that Rabbi Yehuda's twilight is three quarters of a mil, and here Rabbi Yehuda himself says it is four mil. One can [solve this by] saying that here he was stating from the beginning of sunset, which is when the sun begins to enter the width of the firmament, until the night time, which is four mil. There he was counting from the end of sunset.
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