Bava Metzia 114B

מנין לערום שלא יתרום? דכתיב: ״ולא יראה בך ערות דבר״.

Rabba bar Avuh now asks Elijah another question: From where is it derived with regard to a naked person that he may not separate teruma? He replied: As it is written: “And He see no unseemly thing in you” (Deuteronomy 23:15). This verse indicates that one may not recite any words of sanctity, including the blessing upon separating teruma, in front of one who is naked.

אמר ליה: לאו כהן הוא מר? מאי טעמא קאי מר בבית הקברות! אמר ליה: לא מתני מר טהרות? דתניא, רבי שמעון בן יוחי אומר: קבריהן של נכרים אין מטמאין, שנאמר: ״ואתן צאני צאן מרעיתי אדם אתם״. אתם קרויין ״אדם״, ואין נכרים קרויין ״אדם״.

The amora proceeded to ask Elijah a different question and said to him: Is not the Master a priest? What is the reason that the Master is standing in a cemetery? Elijah said to him: Has the Master not studied the mishnaic order of Teharot? As it is taught in a baraita: R' Shimon ben Yoḥai says that the graves of non-Jews do not render one impure, as it is stated: “And you, My sheep, the sheep of My pasture, are man” (Ezekiel 34:31), which teaches that you, i.e., the Jewish people, are called “man,” but non-Jews are not called “man.” Since the Torah states with regard to ritual impurity imparted in a tent: “If a man dies in a tent” (Numbers 19:14), evidently impurity imparted by a tent does not apply to non-Jews.

אמר ליה: בארבעה לא מצינא, בשיתא מצינא? אמר ליה: ואמאי? אמר ליה: דחיקא לי מילתא. דבריה ועייליה לגן עדן. אמר ליה: פשוט גלימך, ספי שקול מהני טרפי. ספא שקל.

Rabba bar Avuh said to him: How could I be familiar with that baraita? If I cannot be proficient in the more commonly studied 4 orders of the Mishnah, can I be knowledgeable in all 6? Elijah said to him: Why are you not learned in them all? Rabba bar Avuh said to him: The matter of a livelihood is pressing for me, and I am therefore unable to study properly. Elijah led him and brought him into the Garden of Eden and said to him: Remove your cloak, gather up and take some of these leaves lying around. Rabba Bar Avuh gathered them up and took them.