Musar for Yevamot 124:18

וכמה אמר רבא עונה והני מילי לדבר הרשות אבל לדבר מצוה מיטרידי

replied: Twelve hours.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [H] lit., 'period'. i.e., a whole day or a whole night. If the menstruation occurs during the day, he must keep away throughout that day, and if during the night, he must keep away during all that night. ');">⁴⁶</span> And this<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The duty of visiting prior to setting out on a journey. ');">⁴⁷</span> applies only [when the journey is] for a secular purpose, but when for a religious purpose [it does not apply, since then] people are in a state of anxiety.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Or, 'they might be preoccupied' and thus delay the journey and neglect the performance of the religious act. ');">⁴⁸</span>

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