Talmud for Moed Kattan 1:1

משנה משקין בית השלחין במועד ובשביעית בין ממעיין שיוצא בתחלה בין ממעיין שאין יוצא בתחלה אבל לא ממי גשמים ולא ממי קילון ואין עושין עוגיות לגפנים:

From when may one recite Shema in the evening? From the time the Kohanim go in to eat their Terumah (produce consecrated for priestly consumption). Until the end of the first watch, says Rabbi Eliezer. And the Sages say: Until [astronomical] midnight. Rabban Gamliel says: Until the break of dawn. It once happened that his [Rabban Gamliel’s] sons came from a house of feasting. They said to him: We have not recited Shema. He to them: If dawn has not broken, you are obligated to recite it. And it is not only in this case that they said it! Rather, in all cases where the Sages said "only until midnight," the obligation remains until the break of dawn. [e.g.] Burning the fats and limbs [of the sacrifices, on the Temple altar] — the obligation is until the break of dawn. [e.g.:] All [sacrifices] which may be eaten for one day — the obligation is until the break of dawn. If that is so, why did the Sages say, "until midnight?" To distance a person from transgression.

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There¹⁴²Mishnah Mo‘ed Qaṭan 1:7., we have stated: “One does not marry women on a holiday¹⁴³The intermediate days of the Passover and Tabernacles holidays when acquisitions are permitted and in biblical law the man could acquire a wife and the woman the ketubah rights..” Simeon bar Abba in the name of Rebbi Joḥanan: Because of refraining from being fruitful and increase¹⁴⁴The prohibition to organize weddings on the intermediate days of a holiday is purely rabbinical, so that people should not refrain from marrying during the rest of the year in order to save money.
In Mo‘ed Qaṭan 1:7 1. 26ff. and the Babli, 8b/9a, the reason for the prohibition is a matter of disagreement among several authors.. They asked before Rebbi Yose: May a slave marry a woman on a holiday¹⁴⁵The question is difficult to understand since the slave cannot marry as long as he is a slave but is a full Jew subject to all Jewish laws the moment he is manumitted. Maybe the question is about a slave manumitted on the holiday.? He told them, let us hear from the following: “Shall he be alone? But the world was created only for procreation and increase!” And Rebbi Simeon bar Abba said in the name of Rebbi Joḥanan: Anybody commanded to be fruitful and increase is forbidden to marry on a holiday¹⁴⁶Even if in this case the marriage has to be postponed for a few days. A slightly different version of this paragraph is in Mo‘ed Qaṭan 1:7 80d l. 30, quoted by Tosaphot Ḥagiga 2b, Giṭṭin 41b, s. v. לא. Tosaphot point out that in a certain sense a male slave cannot fulfill the commandment to be fruitful because he cannot have any family relationship with his biological children..

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