Talmud Bavli
Talmud Bavli

Quoting%20commentary for Megillah 55:10

שאל ר"ע את רבי נחוניא הגדול (אמר לו) במה הארכת ימים אתו גווזי וקא מחו ליה סליק יתיב ארישא דדיקלא א"ל רבי אם נאמר (במדבר כח, ד) כבש למה נאמר אחד אמר להו צורבא מדרבנן הוא שבקוהו

Akiva asked R. Nehunia the Great: How did you live so long? His attendants came and beat him. He went and sat on the top of a date tree. He said to him: Rabbi, seeing that it says “a lamb” why does it also say “one” (Numbers 28:4)? Thereupon he [R. Nehuniah] said: He is a rabbinical student, leave him alone.

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