Talmud for Shabbat 239:2

<big><strong>מתני׳</strong></big> מצילין סל מלא ככרות אע"פ שיש בו מאה סעודות ועיגול של דבילה וחבית של יין ואומר לאחרים בואו והצילו לכם ואם היו פיקחין עושין עמו חשבון אחר השבת

I will not be a binder up [hobesh]: I will not be of those who shut themselves up [hobeshe] in the <i>Beth Hamidrash</i>. And in my house in neither bread nor clothing: I possess no mikra,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Scriptural knowledge. ');">⁵</span> mishnah, or gemara<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Gemara, which was often substituted by the censors for Talmud, is generally understood to mean the discussion on the Mishnah; v. however Kaplan, Redaction of the Talmud pp. 195-7, where he maintains that gemara does not mean discussions but the final decisions arising out of the discussions. — Returning to our text, we see that there were 'faithful', i.e., truthful men in Jerusalem who confessed their ignorance and refused office on that account. ');">⁶</span> — How does that follow: perhaps it is different there, for had he said to them, 'I have studied them' [the reasons of the Law], they would have retorted, 'Then tell [them] to us'? — Then let him say that he had learnt and forgotten: why [state], 'I will not be a binder up' at all?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This proves that he was animated by a desire for truth, and thus contradicts Raba. ');">⁷</span> — There is no difficulty: here it is in connection with learning;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In this respect they were truthful. ');">⁸</span>

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