Commentary for Yevamot 219:13

איתיביה אביי וחרשת מעיקרא בת חליצה היא והתנן שני אחין אחד פקח ואחד חרש נשואין לשתי נכריות אחת פקחת ואחת חרשת מת חרש בעל חרשת מה יעשה פקח בעל פקחת כונס ואם רצה להוציא יוציא

as she entered,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The marriage with her husband. As the marriage was performed by means of signs and gestures so also is the halizah. ');">⁵³</span> but the 'woman who was possessed of hearing and became deaf afterwards' cannot do so, since her inability to recite [the prescribed formulae]<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Cf. supra 106b. ');">⁵⁴</span> acts as an obstacle.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As a deaf-mute she is unable to recite them and is consequently precluded from the performance of halizah. ');">⁵⁵</span> Abaye raised an objection against him: Is, however, one who was originally deaf permitted to perform <i>halizah</i>? Surely, we learned: If two brothers, one of whom was in possession of his faculties and the other deaf,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Not to halizah. ');">⁴⁵</span> were [respectively] married to two strangers,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., women who were not related to one another. ');">⁵⁶</span>

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