Study Sanhedrin folio 13B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
The Talmud answers: Also here, the difference between them concerns the question of whether the day of the equinox begins the season or whether the day of the equinox concludes the season, but their opinions are not defined. Although it is apparent from the baraita that these two tanna’im disagree
The baraita teaches: The tanna referred to as Aḥerim says: The year is intercalated even on account of a minority of the month, and how much is a minority of the month? 14 days. The Talmud asks: What do Aḥerim hold? If they hold that the day of the equinox concludes the season, and also that we re
The Talmud asks: In a situation like this, why is it necessary to intercalate the year? But let them intercalate the month of Adar by adding a day to it, and this will cause the day of the equinox to occur during the first half of Nisan. Rav Aḥa bar Ya’akov said: The tanna whom the baraita here ref
Ravina said: Actually, it can be explained that Aḥerim are standing in the season of Tishrei, and were discussing Sukkot as opposed to Passover. Aḥerim hold that we require all of the festival of Sukkot, including the Festival on the first day, to take place in the new season. Since Sukkot begins o
§ The Mishnah teaches: The laying of hands by the rabbis is performed by a court of 3 judges according to R' Shimon and 5 according to R' Yehuda. A baraita states: The verse states: “And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before YHWH” (Leviticus 4:15). One m