Related%20passage for Yoma 40:5

רב איקלע לאתריה דרבי שילא לא הוה אמורא למיקם עליה דרבי שילא קם רב עליה וקא מפרש מאי קריאת הגבר קרא גברא אמר ליה רבי שילא ולימא מר קרא תרנגולא א"ל אבוב לחרי זמר לגרדאי לא מקבלוה מיניה

When I stood before R'Hiyya and interpreted 'keriath ha-geber' as the 'call of the man' he did not object to it and you say to me: Say, perhaps, the cock's crow! He said: Sir, you are Rab, would you sit down, Sir!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Do not continue as my interpreter. You are too big to serve me.');">⁸</span> He replied: People say: If you have hired yourself away [to someone] pull his wool!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Having undertaken the task, I will complete it, unconcerned about questions of dignity.');">⁹</span> Some say: Thus did he reply to him: One may promote a man in holy things, but not demote<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The next interpreter may know very little and it would be a sort of disgrace for you to have to put up with an ignoramus after my service, The emphasis is on the ignoramus, not on any implied self-praise.');">¹⁰</span>

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