Jewish%20thought for Sanhedrin 140:11

אכל מעשר שני בירושלים: כיון דכי אורחיה הוא קא אכיל ליה לא ממשיך:

nor do they ascend for it except with a meal consisting of wheat bread and beans; they ascend only on the evening following the intercalated day, and at night, not by day.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This seems superfluous. Tosaf. explains that it might otherwise be thought that 'they ascend only on the evening following the additional day' merely emphasises that it must not be on the evening preceding, but that evening itself is not particularly taught. ');">¹⁸</span> But has it not been taught: They may not ascend for it by night, but only by day? — It is even as R. Hiyya b. Abba said to his sons: 'Go up there early, and come out early, so that the people may learn of your celebration.'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lit., 'hear you.' I.e., they were not to wait until it was quite dark, as by then the streets are deserted, therefore they were to go up whilst it was yet day. But the essential ceremony took place at night. They were also to leave the chamber early in the morning: by so doing it became evident that they spent the night in the upper chamber and their purpose in going up also became evident. But if they tarried, it might be thought that they had gone up only in the morning and had some other purpose in view. ');">¹⁹</span>

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