Talmud for Chullin 7:39
כל מצוה שהחזיקו בה כותים הרבה מדקדקין בה יותר מישראל
This, rather, is the real difference between them, namely: An unwritten law which has been adopted by them.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' E.g. the law relating to Shechitah.');"><sup>17</sup></span>
Jerusalem Talmud Pesachim
It was stated: 66Tosephta 2:3, Babli Gittin 10a, Qiddushin 76a, Ḥulin 4a. Rabban Simeon ben Gamliel says, any commandment which the Samaritans keep they are much more exact with them than Jews. Rebbi Simeon67This author cannot be R. Simeon ben Yoḥai, but he might be R. Simeon ben Eleazar (Avodah zarah 5:4, p. 447). said, that means earlier when they were concentrated in their villages. But today, when they have no commandments nor remainders of commandments they are suspect and degenerate.
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