Commentary for Pesachim 187:3
היה עומד לפנים מן המודיעים ואין יכול ליכנס מפני גמלים וקרונות המעכבות אותו יכול לא יהא חייב ת"ל ובדרך לא היה והרי לא היה בדרך:
If he was standing on the hither side of Modi'im, but could not enter on account of the camels and wagons which held him up,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' He too being on one, and the road was blocked.');"><sup>4</sup></span> you might think that he is not 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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