Commentary for Shabbat 33:5

ואידך הבוצר לגת שמאי אומר הוכשר הלל אומר לא הוכשר א"ל הלל לשמאי מפני מה בוצרין בטהרה ואין מוסקין בטהרה

Said Hillel to Shammai: Why must one vintage [grapes] in purity, yet not gather [olives] in purity?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' You maintain that grapes are fit to become defiled, and therefore must be vintaged into ritually clean baskets: why then do you not insist upon it when the olives are gathered too, for surely the same reasoning applies? ');">⁹</span> If you provoke me, he replied, I will decree uncleanness in the case of olive gathering too. A sword was planted in the <i>Beth Hamidrash</i> and it was proclaimed, 'He who would enter, let him enter, but he who would depart, let him not depart!'<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This was the practice when a vote was taken upon any question; Halevi, Doroth, I, 3, p. 585 n. 18. ');">¹⁰</span>

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