Commentary for Rosh Hashanah 62:15

רב נחמן בר יצחק מאי טעמא לא אמר כרב פפא אמר לך אי סלקא דעתך רבן יוחנן בן זכאי חבריו דרבי אליעזר מי הוה רבו הוה ואידך כיון דתלמידים הוו לאו אורח ארעא למימרא ליה לרביה רבך

They therefore made a rule that half of it should be fastened to the rock and half between the horns of the goat that was sent [to the wilderness]'. Why did not R'Nahman B'Isaac accept the view of R'Papa? - He could reply: If you assume that it was R'Johanan B'Zaccai [who made the rule about the vine], was he the colleague of R'Eliezer? He was his teacher! [What replies] the other [to this]? - Since they were his disciples [who reported the rule to him], it was not polite of them to say to their teacher, 'your teacher'.

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