Commentary for Pesachim 187:8
לימא תיהוי תיובתא דרבי חנינא לא (בראשית יט, טו) ויאיצו שאני
This is a refutation of Raba, and a refutation of 'Ulla! It is a refutation.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Both (for 'Ulla v. supra 93b) hold that five mils can be walked from daybreak until the sun is in the heavens, which certainly cannot be reconciled with the present statement.');"><sup>9</sup></span> Shall we say that this is [also] a refutation of R'Johanan? -He can answer you: I spoke only of [an average man's journey] in a [complete] day, and it was the Rabbis<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., 'Ulla and R. Johanan.');"><sup>10</sup></span>
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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