Commentary for Pesachim 109:5

<big><strong>מתני׳</strong></big> וחכמים אומרים ביהודה היו עושין מלאכה בערבי פסחים עד חצות ובגליל לא היו עושין כל עיקר הלילה ב"ש אוסרים וב"ה מתירין עד הנץ החמה:

The Rabbis are not self-contradictory: here, since everybody works, while he [alone] does not work, it looks like conceit; but there, since everybody recites [the shema'] and he too recites [it], it does not look like conceit. R'Simeon B'Gamaliel too is not self-contradictory: There only, since devotion Is required, while we are witnesses that he cannot devote his mind,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' His feelings are obviously such that unless he is extremely pious he cannot recite the shema' with proper devotion.');">⁵</span>

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