Commentary for Menachot 185:14
<big><strong>גמ׳</strong></big> בשלמא חרש שוטה וקטן דלאו בני דעה נינהו עובד כוכבים נמי (ויקרא א, ב) בני ישראל סומכין ואין עובדי כוכבים סומכין אלא סומא מאי טעמא לא
Alternatively, he may even hold [that view] but the offering of another and the offering of a gentile are excluded from one verse, hence two verses are at his disposal, one for the teaching that only 'his offering' [requires the laying on of hands] but not the offering of his father, and the other to include every owner of the offering for the rite of the laying on of hands. And for what purpose does R'Judah utilize the expression 'and if he shall at all change'? - He requires it in order to include a woman.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., that the law of substitution also applies to a woman.');"><sup>14</sup></span>
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