Commentary for Shabbat 68:2

ת"ר ביה"ש ספק מן היום ומן הלילה ספק כולו מן היום ספק כולו מן הלילה מטילין אותו לחומר שני ימים

Our Rabbis taught: As to twilight [period] it is doubtful whether it is partly day and partly night, or the whole of it [belongs to the] day, or the whole of it night: [therefore] it is cast upon the stringencies of both days.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This is explained infra. ');">³</span> And what is twilight? From sunset as long as the face of the east has a reddish glow: when the lower [horizon] is pale<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., dark, no longer red. ');">⁴</span>

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