Related for Sukkah 51:2

תניא א"ר חנניא בן עקביא כותבי ספרים תפילין ומזוזות הן ותגריהן ותגריהן וכל העוסקין במלאכת שמים לאתויי מוכרי תכלת פטורין מק"ש ומן התפלה ומן התפילין ומכל מצות האמורות בתורה לקיים דברי ר' יוסי הגלילי שהיה רבי יוסי הגלילי אומר העוסק במצוה פטור מן המצוה

It has been taught: R. Hanania b. Akavya said: Scribes writing [Torah] scrolls, tefillin and mezuzot, their agents and their agents’ agents, and all who are engaged in holy work including sellers of blue [for tzitzit] are exempt from the obligation of prayer and tefillin and all the commandments mentioned in the Torah, to confirm the words of R. Yose the Galilean, for R. Yose the Galilean used to say: He who is occupied with the performance of a mitzvah is [at that time] exempt from other mitzvot

Tosefta Berakhot

The writers of books [of the Tanach], of Tefillin (Phylacteries), and of Mezuzot interrupt [their work] to read the Shema, but do not interrupt [their work] for [the] prayer [of Shemoneh Esreh]. Rebbi says, “Just like they do not interrupt [their work] for [the] prayer of [Shemoneh Esreh], so too they do not interrupt [their work] to read the Shema.” Rebbi Chananya Ben Akavya says, “Just like they interrupt [their work] to read the Shema, so too they interrupt [their work] for [the] prayer [of Shmoneh Esreh].” Rebbi Elazar Bar Tzadok said, “When Rabban Gamliel and his Bet Din were in Yavneh, they were involved in the needs of the community and they did not interrupt [their work] in order not to lose [concentration] from their hearts.”

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