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Does the Mishna's requirement to go to Beis Din mean a couple is forbidden to live together until they receive clarification? Rashi (רש"י) holds they remain permitted to live together while fulfilling the obligation to seek verification. This creates a chiddush that efshar levarer here means a positive duty to clarify, not a prohibition until clarification.
The shiur analyzes the fundamental machlokes between Rashi (רש"י) and Tosafos (תוספות) regarding the Mishna's requirement that those who find pesach (פסח) pasuach must go to Beis Din. The core question is whether this creates an issur on the couple until they receive clarification, or whether they remain permitted to live together while fulfilling an obligation to seek verification. Rashi maintains that the couple is mutar to live together immediately, and the Mishna is establishing a chiyuv birur (obligation to clarify) rather than an issur. This understanding emerges from the practical consideration that being mevarer could take months or years - the Mishna cannot mean they are forbidden to live together for such an extended period without specifying a time limit. According to Rashi, efshar levarer here means a positive obligation to make the effort to clarify, but until clarification comes, the couple relies on their current heter.
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