Talmud for Menachot 81:9
אמר ליה לאו היינו כנף דכתב רחמנא באורייתא אתא שדייה איכסי גלימא אחריתי
- One was stated as an inference from the other.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' R. Zera stated one ruling only, namely the previous one, and this ruling here was inferred from it (Rashi) . According to Tosaf. and Sh. Mek. it is just the reverse, i.e., the previous ruling was inferred from this one.');"><sup>6</sup></span>
Tractate Tzitzit
Ẓizith [of a ṭallith used as a shroud] upon a corpse should not be undone.25The removal of the zizith would be an insult to the dead, which is condemned in Prov. 17, 5, Whoso mocketh the poor blasphemeth his Maker, and a dead man is the poorest of all. Abba Saul b. Boṭhnith said, ‘My father told me, “When I die, undo the zizith [in my ṭallith] because they come within the category of holiness”‘.26And should be undone before the ṭallith is used as a shroud. The Sages said: It does not come within the category of holiness, so one may use it as a shroud for the dead or as a pack-saddle for an ass.
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