יא (ויקרא י, י) ולהבדיל בין הקדש ובין החול אמר רחמנא אלא מה התם בשעת ביאה לא תהא שכרות הכא נמי בשעת דישה לא תהא חסימה
11 R. Jonathan asked R. Simai: What if he muzzled it outside?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., before it entered the field. ');"><sup>22</sup></span> Does Scripture mean, <i>[Thou shalt not muzzle] an ox when</i> [i.e., at the time that] <i>it thresheth</i>, href="#90b_23"><sup>23</sup> whilst this is not [done] when it thresheth? Or perhaps Scripture meant, Thou shalt not thresh with a muzzled ox? — He replied: You may learn from your father's house.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., from the law appertaining to priests, R. Jonathan being one. [The reference is to R. Jonathan b. Joseph, the Tanna, a disciple of R. Ishmael, and not to R. Jonathan. the disciple of R. Hiyya, who certainly was no priest; v. Sanh. 71a. The question he put to R. Simai who, as a younger contemporary of Rabbi was considerably his junior, would then be merely to test him. It is, however, preferable to read with MS. Venice, 'R. Simeon (b. Yohai)' instead of 'R. Simai'; v. Hyman Toledoth, II. p. 698.] ');"><sup>24</sup></span>