Mesorat%20hashas for Pesachim 109:16

תא שמע רבי מאיר אומר כל מלאכה שהיא לצורך המועד

But there is the night?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Following the thirteenth, when it is permissible even in Galilee.');">¹⁵</span> - Said R'Shesheth: This is according to Beth Shammai.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Who in our Mishnah forbid the night.');">¹⁶</span> R'Ashi said: In truth it i as Beth Hillel, [yet the night of the fourteenth is not stated] because it is not the practice of people to weed night - Rabina said: After all it refers to Judea, but in respect to taking root we do say once that part of the day is as the whole of it, but we do not say twice that part of the day is as the whole of it.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' For if he weeds some time on the fourteenth we would have to count the rest of the day as a complete day, and also the beginning of the sixteenth until the waving of the 'omer as another complete day.');">¹⁷</span> <big><b>MISHNAH: </b></big>R'MEIR SAID: ANY WORK WHICH HE BEGAN BEFORE THE FOURTEENTH, HE MAY FINISH IT ON THE FOURTEENTH; BUT HE MAY NOT BEGIN IT AT THE OUTSET ON THE FOURTEENTH, EVEN IF HE CAN FINISH IT [ON THE SAME DAY]. BUT THE SAGES MAINTAIN: THREE CRAFTSMEN MAY WORK ON THE EVE OF PASSOVER UNTIL MIDDAY, AND THESE ARE THEY: TAILORS, HAIRDRESSERS, AND WASHERMEN. R'JOSE B. R'JUDAH SAID: SHOEMAKERS TOO.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' These may work everywhere.');">¹⁸</span> <big><b>GEMARA: </b></big>The scholars asked: Did we learn [that it may be finished] when required for the Festival, but when not required for the Festival he may not even finish it; or perhaps we learned [that he must not begin work] when it is not required for the Festival, but when it is required we may indeed begin it; or perhaps, whether it is needed for the Festival or it is not needed, he may finish but not start? - Come and hear: But he may not begin at the outset on the fourteenth even a small girdle, [or] even a small hair-net - What does 'even' imply? Surely, even these which are required for the Festival, he may only finish, but not begin; whence it follows that where it is not required [for the Festival], we may not even finish! - No: after all, even when it is not required we may indeed finish [the work], and yet what does 'even' connote? Even these too, which are small. For you might argue, their beginning, that is the end of their work;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., they require so little time.');">¹⁹</span> then we should even begin them at the very outset; therefore he informs us [that it is not so]. Come and hear: R'Meir said: Any work which is required for the Festival,

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