Commentary for Yevamot 144:15

ואזדו לטעמייהו דתניא הכל כשרים לקדש חוץ מחרש שוטה וקטן רבי יהודה מכשיר בקטן ופוסל באשה ובאנדרוגינוס

Surely it was taught: The uncircumcised and the unclean are exempt from appearing at the Festivals!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hag. 4b. Three times a year. on the occasion of the Festivals of Passover, Pentecost and Tabernacles, all males had to appear before the Lord in the Temple at Jerusalem. V. Ex. XXIII. 17 and cf. Hag. 20. ');">⁴⁸</span> — There [the case is different], because he is a repulsive person.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' It is revolting to have an uncircumcised man in the Temple. Hence the prohibition. This, however, supplies no proof that in all other respects also the uncircumcised has the same status as the unclean. ');">⁴⁹</span> They<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' R. Judah and the Rabbis, in their difference on the question of the hermaphrodite. ');">⁵⁰</span> follow their own respective views. For it was taught: All<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Levitically clean persons, including a woman. ');">⁵¹</span>

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