Commentary for Sanhedrin 26:1

איכא בינייהו יום תקופה מתחיל ויום תקופה גומר ולא מסיימי

— They differ as to whether the <i>Tekufah</i> day completes [the previous] or begins [the new season].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Though they both state the number sixteen, the one who holds that the day completes the previous Tekufah must count the new season as beginning on the seventeenth. ');">¹</span> But their views were not defined.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., it is not clear who is of the one and who of the other opinion. ');">²</span> [Again it was stated:] 'Others say: [That the year is intercalated even where there is a shortage] by the lesser part of the month. And how much is that? Fourteen days.' Now, which view do they adopt? Do they hold that the <i>Tekufah</i> day completes [the previous season], and that we require the whole Feast [of Ingathering to be included in the new <i>Tekufah</i>?] But surely in our case, it is so.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For the Tishri Tekufah then commences on the fifteenth, whereas the Feast of Ingathering, as defined in p. 58, n. 1, commences on the sixteenth. ');">³</span>

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