Halakhah for Megillah 40:4
אלא אמר רבי זירא מהכא (נחמיה ד, טו) ואנחנו עושים במלאכה וחצים מחזיקים ברמחים מעלות השחר עד צאת הכוכבים ואומר (נחמיה ד, טז) (והיה) לנו הלילה (למשמר)
Rather R. Zera said: We derive it from here: “And so we worked on; and half of them held the spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared” and it says, “That in the night they may be a guard for us, and that we may work in the day” (Nehemiah 4:15-16).
Sefer HaChinukh
From the laws of the commandment is, for example, that which they, may their memory be blessed, said (Megillah 20b) [that] we only make this declaration during the day, and that the whole day is fit for the declaration of the tithe, and that it can be said in any language (Sotah 32b). And [the proper execution of] its commandment is in the Temple, as it is stated, "in front of the Lord, your God." But if he makes the declaration in any place, he has fulfilled [it]. And there cannot be anything left of any of the gifts with the one making the declaration, as he says, "I have disposed of the holy from the house." And when does he make the declaration? After the third year in which we separate the poor-tithe, in the fourth year which is after it on the last day of Pesach; and so [too,] in the seventh [year]. And the rest of its laws are elucidated in the last chapter of Tractate Maaser Sheni.
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