Commentary for Yevamot 14:5

ומנא תימרא דאמרינן הואיל ואישתרי אישתרי דתניא מצורע שחל שמיני שלו בערב הפסח וראה קרי בו ביום וטבל אמרו חכמים אע"פ שאין טבול יום אחר נכנס זה נכנס

[in respect of one prohibition]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That of marrying a brother's wife. ');">¹⁷</span> she was also permitted [in the case of the other].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The prohibition of marrying one's wife's sister. Hence etc. V. supra note 7. ');">¹⁸</span> And whence is it derived that we assume that 'since something was permitted [in one respect] it was also permitted [in the other]'? — From what was taught: In the case of a leper whose eighth day [of purification]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' On which he completes the days of his purification and brings the prescribed sacrifices, presenting himself (whither as a leper he was till that day forbidden to enter) on the Temple mount at the entrance to the Nikanor gate of the Sanctuary, from where he extends his thumb and great toe into the Sanctuary (whither he is not yet allowed to enter) for the priest to apply to them some of the sacrificial blood, v. Nazir, Sonc. ed. p. 165ff. ');">¹⁹</span> fell on the Passover eve,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' When the paschal lamb is sacrificed to be eaten in the evening. ');">²⁰</span>

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