Zevachim 18B

מטושטשין או מקורעין ⁠– ועבד; עבודתו פסולה.

soiled or ripped, and he performed sacrificial rites, his service is disqualified.

אמר רב יהודה אמר שמואל: מרושלין ⁠– כשרין, מסולקין ⁠– פסולין. והתניא מסולקין כשרין! אמר רמי בר חמא: לא קשיא; כאן שסילקן על ידי אבנט, כאן דליתניהו מעיקרא כלל.

Rav Yehuda says that Shmuel says: If the vestments are dragging on the ground, they are fit, but if they are raised up above the ground, they are unfit. The Talmud asks: But isn’t it taught in the above baraita that even if the vestments were raised up they are fit? Rami bar Ḥama says: This is not difficult. Here, the baraita deems them fit in a case where the priest raised them up by his belt, although they were initially the proper length; there, Shmuel deems them unfit in a case where they do not initially cover the priest’s feet at all.

רב אמר: אחד זה ואחד זה ⁠– פסולין.

Rav says: In both this case and that case, whether they were dragging or raised up, they are unfit.

רב הונא איקלע לארגיזא, רמא ליה בר אושפיזכניה: מי אמר שמואל מרושלין כשרין ומסולקין פסולין?! והתניא: מסולקין ⁠– כשרין! אמר ליה: בר מינה דההיא, דשנייה רמי בר חמא.

The Talmud recounts: Rav Huna happened to come to Argiza. The son of his innkeeper [oshpizekhaneih] raised a contradiction before him: Did Shmuel actually say that if the vestments are dragging on the ground, they are fit, but if they are raised up above the ground, they are unfit? But isn’t it taught in the baraita that even if the vestments were raised up they are fit? Rav Huna said to him: Raise a contradiction from any source apart from this baraita, as Rami bar Ḥama already answered that it does not contradict Shmuel’s statement, as it applies only to vestments that were initially the proper length.

אלא לרב ⁠– קשיא! וכי תימא: מאי מרושלין ⁠– מסולקין על ידי אבנט, ואבנט מיגז אגיז; אלא מסולקין קשיא!

The Talmud asks: But doesn’t the baraita pose a difficulty for Rav, who deems the vestments unfit even if they were dragging? And if you would say: What is the meaning of the word: Dragging, in the baraita? It means that they would initially drag but were raised up by a belt to the proper length, and they are fit since the belt effectively trims them, but then the term: Raised up, in the baraita poses a difficulty. Why should the baraita deem raised vestments fit? If the baraita is referring to vestments that were initially the proper length and were then raised up by a belt, then shouldn’t they be unfit as the belt trims them?