Commentary for Pesachim 215:5

אמרי לא שאני רב ששת דאיסתניס הוה דאי טעים בצפרא מידי לאורת' לא הוה מהני ליה מיכלא:

shall kill it] between the evenings<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XII, 6 (E.V. (at dusk) .');">⁵</span> [means any time] between yesterday evening and this evening?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the evenings commencing the fourteenth and the fifteenth. The night must be omitted, since offerings cannot be sacrifices at night. - Though of course sacrifices lead altogether ceased by the time of R. Shesheth, yet if on this view one had to fast when the temple stood, it would still be necessary, because the interdict had never formally been rescinded.');">⁶</span>

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