Commentary for Menachot 186:11
ואי אשמעינן הני תרי משום דלא איתרבי לתנופה אבל חזה דאיתרבי לתנופה אימא לא צריכא
To be waved, to make atonement for him.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. XIV, 21.');"><sup>17</sup></span> Does the waving make the atonement? Does not the atonement come through the blood, as it is said, For it is the blood that maketh atonement by reason of the life?
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