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Related for Megillah 4:7

כֹּהֵן שֶׁיֵּשׁ בְּיָדָיו מוּמִין, לֹא יִשָּׂא אֶת כַּפָּיו. רַבִּי יְהוּדָה אוֹמֵר, אַף מִי שֶׁהָיוּ יָדָיו צְבוּעוֹת אִסְטִיס וּפוּאָה, לֹא יִשָּׂא אֶת כַּפָּיו, מִפְּנֵי שֶׁהָעָם מִסְתַּכְּלִין בּוֹ:

A Cohein who has blemishes on his hands [likewise on his face or on his feet] may not recite the priestly blessing. [For Cohanim are not permitted to go up for the blessing in their shoes. And if he has blemishes on his feet, they will gaze at them, and thence, at his hands. And if one gazes at the Cohanim in their blessing, his eyes are dimmed (Chagigah 16a), the Shechinah abiding between their hands.] R. Yehudah says: Also, one whose hands are dyed with istis [a blue dye] or with puah [red roots, which produce a red dye] may not lift his hands, for he is gazed at. [The gemara concludes that if he were a "familiar" in his city, so that all knew about (and were indifferent to) his blemishes or to his dyed hands, or if most of the men of the city worked in dyes, it is permitted, for then he is not gazed at.]

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.
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