The entire night is kasher for the harvesting of the omer and the burning of the fats and the limbs [left over from the afternoon tamid, viz. (Leviticus 6:2): "It is the burnt-offering upon its firewood on the altar all the night."] This is the rule: Something whose mitzvah is in the daytime is kasher the entire day, [to include the arranging of the two containers of frankincense placed on the show bread], and something whose mitzvah is at night is kasher the entire night, [to include the eating of the Pesach offering, which is kasher the entire night, the sages having said "until midnight" only to keep one far from transgression.]
Bartenura on Mishnah Megillah
ולהקטר חלבים ואברים – the remainder of the daily burnt-offering of the time between the beginning of the decline of the sun until sunset (i.e., afternoon), as it is written, concerning them (Leviticus 6:2): “[This is the burnt offering:] The burnt offering itself shall remain where it is burned on the altar all night [until morning]….”
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English Explanation of Mishnah Megillah
Introduction
This mishnah is the complement to yesterday’s mishnah. It teaches that mitzvoth which must be performed at night can be performed all night.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Megillah
זה הכלל: דבר שמצותו ביום כשר כל היום – to include the arrangement of two fragments of frankincense which is placed on the show-bread (on the table of the Sanctuary).
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English Explanation of Mishnah Megillah
The whole night is valid for reaping the Omer and for burning fat and limbs [on the altar]. There are two mitzvoth listed here that must be done at night. The first is reaping the Omer, the barley offering which is brought from the second day of Pesah through Shavuot (Leviticus 23:10). The second is putting on the altar fat and limbs that had not been burned during the day.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Megillah
ודבר שמצותו בלילה כשר כל הלילה – to include the eating of the Passover sacrifice which is valid all night long, and the Sages did not say “until midnight” other than in order to distance a person from sin.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Megillah
This is the general principle: any matter whose commandment is during the day, is valid all day and any matter whose commandment is at night is valid all night. This general principle illustrates that which we learned in the last two mishnayot.
