Halakhah for Ketubot 10:1
יניח אצבעו באזניו והיינו דאמר ר' אלעזר מפני מה אצבעותיו של אדם דומות ליתידות מאי טעמא אילימא משום דמחלקן כל חדא וחדא למילתיה עבידא דאמר מר זו זרת זו קמיצה זו אמה זו אצבע זה גודל
he should plug his finger into his ears And this is the same thing that R. Elazar said: Why do the fingers of man resemble pegs? What is the reason? Shall I say because they are divided? [Surely] each one has been made for its own purpose! For the Master said: This one is zeret, this one is kemitzah, this one is amah, this one is etzba and this one is gudal.
Sefer HaChinukh
And the root of this commandment and all of its content is in the commandment that is before it. And since this verse has come to our hand, we will write the midrash about it; that they, of blessed memory, affixed to it in the gemara, when they said (Ketuvot 5b), "Why are the fingers of a person made like spikes" - which is to say, tapered? "So that if a person hears a thing that is not proper, he should put his finger into his ear (ozen), as it is stated, 'With your aazen you shall have a spike' - do not read, 'your aazen,' but rather your ozen.'"
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