Commentary for Menachot 75:1
בלאו (דברים יז, יא) דלא תסור
as referring to the prohibition, Thou shalt not turn aside.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Sc. from the sentence which they shall declare unto thee, Deut. XVII, 11. I.e., the principle is that only a Rabbinic prohibition, though having for its sanction this verse in the Torah, can be set aside on account of man's dignity. ,hknrf');"><sup>1</sup></span> Another version states that [Rabina] told him of it there [in the street]; whereupon [Mar] said to him, 'Do you think that I am going to cast it off here?
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