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The Talmud answers: Actually, you can indeed say that the baraita about teruma was taught in accordance with the opinion of R' Yehuda, and that R' Yehuda permits a deaf person to read even ab initio, while R' Yosei disqualifies a deaf person even after the fact. And the baraita that teaches that
As it is taught in a baraita: R' Yehuda said in the name of R' Elazar ben Azarya: One who recites the Shema must make it audible to his ears, as it is stated: “Hear O Israel, YHWH our God; YHWH is One” (Deuteronomy 6:4), the word “hear” indicating that you should allow your ears to hear the words yo
The Talmud proposes a second solution: Now that you have arrived at this point and cited this baraita, you can even say that R' Yehuda holds in accordance with his teacher, R' Elazar ben Azarya, that a deaf person is disqualified ab initio, and it is only after the fact that his reading is valid. A
§ It was taught in the Mishnah: R' Yehuda says that a minor is fit to read the Megilla. It is taught in a baraita: R' Yehuda said: I can offer proof to my opinion, as when I was a minor I myself read the Megilla before R' Tarfon and the other Elders in Lod. They said to him in response: One cannot
It is taught in a different baraita: R' Yehuda HaNasi said: When I was a minor I read the Megilla before R' Yehuda. They said to him: One cannot bring a proof that an act is permitted from the behavior of the very one who permits it. We know that R' Yehuda maintains that a minor is fit to read the