Related for Menachot 64:8
אמר רב יהודה אמר שמואל כתבה אגרת פסולה מ"ט אתיא כתיבה כתיבה מספר
Why? - Because of the inference that is made by the expression 'writing', which is used here [in connection with the mezuzah] and also there in connection with the scroll.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In connection with the mezuzah it is written (Deut. VI,9) : And thou shalt write them, and in connection with the Book of the Law it is written');"><sup>10</sup></span> Rab Judah also said in the name of Samuel, If one hung it on a stick,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., a stick was fastened to the door-post and the mezuzah was hung on the stick.');"><sup>11</sup></span> it is invalid.
Tosefta Megillah
One who leads the responsive recitation of the Shema, or blesses over fruit or over matzah, behold, he should not answer "amen" after himself. If he answered ["amen" after his own prayer], behold, this is how ignoramuses act. We do not answer with either an "orphaned amen" (i.e., where one does not know to what blessing he is saying "amen"), or a "truncated [amen]" (i.e., where one does not pronounce the entire word). Ben Azzai says, one who answers with an "orphaned amen" -- his children will be orphaned; with a "truncated [amen]," his days will be truncated. But whoever prolongs [his amen], his days and years will be prolonged.
Ask RabbiBookmarkShareCopy