Commentary for Sukkah 76:6
אתמר נמי אר"ש בן פזי אמר רבי יהושע בן לוי משום בר קפרא מנין לשומע כעונה דכתיב (מלכים ב כג, טז) את (הדברים) אשר קרא (יאשיהו) וכי יאשיהו קראן והלא שפן קראן דכתיב ויקראהו שפן (את כל הדברים האלה) לפני המלך אלא מכאן לשומע כעונה
It was also stated: R. Shimon bar Pazzi said in the name of R. Joshua b. Levi who said in the name of Bar Kappara: From where do we know that one who listens is as though he responds? From what is written: "Even all the words of the book which the King of Judah has read" (II Kings 22:16). But was it Josiah that read them? Was it not, in fact Shaphan who read them, as it is written, "And Shaphan read it before the king" (II Kings 22:10). Rather from here [we learn] that one who listens is as though he responds.
Tosafot on Sukkah
In Rava's town (lit. "place") they were all experts in Hallel, and they would all recite Hallel along with the shaliach tzibbur, just as we recite it nowadays. And they did not rely on him (i.e. his recital) at all, as Rashi explains. (WILL FINISH LATER)
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