Musar for Chagigah 32:3
מאן תנא להא דתנו רבנן אמר רבי יהודה בן טבאי אראה בנחמה אם לא הרגתי עד זומם להוציא מלבן של צדוקין שהיו אומרים אין עדים זוממין נהרגין עד שיהרג הנידון
What is the source of the [argument over Rabbi Yehudah the son of Tabbai in the] Rabbis' teaching? Rabbi Yehudah the son of Tabbai said, "[May] I [not] see the comfort [of the redemption] if I did not kill a conspiring witness [who was conspiring on his own, without his partner doing so], to refute the Sadducees, who would say, 'Conspiring witnesses are not killed unless the accused is killed.'"
Mesilat Yesharim
Even matters of Shevut (Resting), despite that they are Rabbinical, are nevertheless important principles as the Sages said: "Never let [the principle] of Shevut (Rest) be light in your eyes. For the laying on of the hands [on a sacrifice for a Festival-day] is [prohibited] only on account of Shevut, yet the greatest men of the age debated therein" (Chagigah 16b).
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