Commentary for Berakhot 42:15
אמרי אין במשנה תורה דריש והני סמוכין מבעי ליה לאידך דריב"ל דאמר ריב"ל כל המלמד לבנו תורה מעלה עליו הכתוב כאלו קבלה מהר חורב שנאמר (דברים ד, ט) והודעתם לבניך ולבני בניך וכתיב בתריה יום אשר עמדת לפני ה' אלהיך בחורב
They said : Yes, in the Book of Deuteronomy R. Judah does use this method of deduction; but the consecutive verses [quoted above] are required for another teaching of R. Joshua b. Levi who says : Whoever teaches his son Torah, the Scriptures ascribe it to him as though he had received it from Mount Horeb ; as it is said, "Thou shalt make them known unto thy children and thy children's children" (Deut. iv. 9) and it continues, "The day that thou stoodest before the Lord thy God in Horeb" (ibid. v. 10).
Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
Why, then, does not R. Judah accept the deduction from Deut. iv. 9 f . above that a Ba'al Keri is forbidden to study Torah?
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Abraham Cohen Footnotes to the English Translation of Masechet Berakhot
Accordingly, while R. Judah adopts the method in Deuteronomy, he does not accept the deduction which R. Joshua b. Levi drew from the verses quoted.
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