Mesorat%20hashas for Yoma 132:14

וחד אמר עדים והתראה בסייף עדים בלא התראה במיתה לא עדים ולא התראה בהדרוקן

'May one whitewash his house'?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' May one whitewash one's house in spite of the fact that one ought to remain conscious all the time of the destruction of the Temple, etc.');">¹⁹</span> - [He replied]: 'May one whitewash his grave'? - [His evasion was due] not to his desire to divert them with words [counter-questions], but because he never said anything that he had not heard from his teacher.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [V. Suk., Sonc. ed., p. 122. Bokser, op. cit. pp. 108f sees in these questions differences of opinion on important points of law. The question about sheep concerned the ban against cattle-raising which the Rabbis wished to enforce (v. B.M. 84b) and which R. Eliezer opposed as having no precedent in tradition. The questions relating to the mamzer involved the imposition of certain discriminations against the mamzer of which R. Eliezer did not approve, and similarly he refused to accept the prohibition of the other Rabbis of plastering one's house in sad remembrance of the destruction of the Temple, not finding any support for it in tradition].');">²⁰</span>

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