Talmud for Menachot 75:2
ואיכא דאמרי מהתם א"ל וא"ל מאי דעתיך למישדייה והאמר מר גדול כבוד הבריות שדוחה את לא תעשה שבתורה והא תרגומה רב בר שבא קמיה דרב כהנא בלאו דלא תסור הכא נמי כרמלית דרבנן היא:
Has not a Master said, Great is the dignity of man since it overrides a negative precept of the Torah? ' 'But has not Rab B'Shabba explained it before R'Kahana as referring to the prohibition, Thou shalt not turn aside? ' 'Here also it is only a karmelith,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' , an area which is neither a public nor a private domain, in which, however, it is forbidden to carry anything on the Sabbath by Rabbinic decree.');"><sup>2</sup></span> so that the prohibition is only Rabbinic.
Tractate Tzitzit
Leaving out [from the zizith] the blue threads though not the white ones, or the white threads though not the blue ones, invalidates them because [the absence of] either the blue or the white invalidates the other. R. [Ishmael]16The name is added in H. maintains: The absence of one does not invalidate the other.
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