Musar for Shabbat 236:12
וא"ר יוסי מימי לא עברתי על דברי חברי יודע אני בעצמי שאיני כהן אם אומרים לי חבירי עלה לדוכן אני עולה וא"ר יוסי מימי לא אמרתי דבר וחזרתי לאחורי
— Rather say, I cohabited five times and repeated.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. 'Er. 100b. ');"><sup>32</sup></span> <u>R. Jose said: I have never called my wife 'my wife' or my ox 'my ox', but my wife [I called] 'my home,' and my ox 'my field'.</u> <u>R. Jose said: I have never looked at my circumcised membrum. But that is not so, for Rabbi was asked, Why were you called 'Our holy Teacher?' Said he to them, I have never looked at my membrum?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Which shows that this modesty was peculiar to him. ');"><sup>33</sup></span></u>
Orchot Tzadikim
A man should never be obstinate with the Creator, may He be Blessed, or with his teachers, for in this manner, one wise man praised himself. "All my days I have never transgressed the opinions of my companions. I know that I am not a priest, and yet if my companions would say to me 'Go up on the pulpit and give the priestly benediction,' I would go up" (Shabbath 118b).
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