Commentary for Shabbat 224:10

קדירה של בשר: פשיטא לא צריכא דאית לה שלאכא מהו דתימא בטולי מבטל לה קמ"ל:

R. Zera said in Raba b. Zimuna's name: If the earlier [scholars] were sons of angels, we are sons of men; and if the earlier [scholars] were sons of men, we are like asses, and not [even] like asses of R. Hanina b. Dosa and R. Phinehas b. Jair,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The allusions are explained in Hul. 7a and Ta'an. 24a. ');">¹⁷</span> but like other asses.

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