Mesorat%20hashas for Pesachim 108:12

And even R'Simeon B'Gamaliel merely says that if he sits and does not work it does not look like conceit, yet he certainly does not forbid it? - Rather, what does 'is not like a public fast' mean? In respect o the Ne'ilah service.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' On specially proclaimed public fast-days an extra service was added at the end of the day', called ne'ilah, which means 'closing'. R. Johanan states that there is no ne'ilah on the Ninth of Ab.');">¹⁷</span> But surely R'Johanan said: Would that a man would go on praying all day!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' If a man does not remember whether he has recited his statutory prayers, R. Johanan rules that he should recite them now, though there is an opposing view that a man must not pray when in this doubt. Now, since R. Johanan holds that a man must pray when in doubt, why should there not be a ne'ilah service on the Ninth of Ab, seeing that it is like a specially proclaimed public fast in many respects?');">¹⁸</span>

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