Commentary for Avodah Zarah 32:11
כי סליקת להתם אשכחתיה לרב אסי דיתיב וקאמר אמר רב חמא בר גוריא משמיה דרב חיה גסה הרי היא כבהמה דקה לפירכוס אמרי ליה ולא סבר לה מר דמאן מרא דשמעתתא רבה בר ירמיה א"ל פתיא אוכמא מינאי ומינך תסתיים שמעתא
Now, when I went up there I found R. Assi sitting and saying: R. Hama b. Guria said in the name of Rav: “A large wild beast is like small cattle with regard to struggling.” I said to him, “Do you not hold, then, that the one who reported this teaching in the name of Rav is Rabbah b. Yirmiyah?” He said back to me: “You black-pot.’ Through me and you this report will be completed.”
Daf Shevui to Avodah Zarah
When R. Zera gets to Israel (if you learned Ketubot, you might remember that at the end of the masechet he makes Aliyah) he hears the statement attributed by a different amora to Rav. He asks R. Assi if this is indeed the correct transmission.
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Daf Shevui to Avodah Zarah
Assi insults R. Zera in return for his doubts about the attribution of the statement and then orders him to transmit it the way that R. Assi does.
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