Mesorat%20hashas for Pesachim 141:6

אמר רב אשי הכי נמי מסתברא דאי לא תימא הכי הא מתניתא מאן קתני לה בן תימא בן תימא הא פסלה לה בלינה ש"מ

An objection is raised: 'And thou shalt be altogether' [ak] joyful:' this is to include the night of the last day of the Festival for rejoicing. You say, to include the light of the last day of the Festival; yet perhaps it is not so, but it is to include the night of the first day of the Festival? Therefore 'ak' is stated, dividing it. Now what is the reason? Is it not because he has no light wherewith to rejoice! - No: [it is] as it was taught. Why do you prefer to include the night of the last day of the Festival and to exclude the night of the first day of the Festival? I include the night of the last day of the Festival, because there is rejoicing before it; while I exclude the night of the first day of the Festival, because there is no rejoicing before it.

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