Commentary for Menachot 186:13

בעי רבי ירמיה מטלית מהו שתחוץ תא שמע ובלבד שלא תהא דבר חוצץ בינו לבין הזבח:

but not his hand upon the neck;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., the front of the neck.');">¹⁹</span> his hand upon the head, but not his hand upon the back; 'his hand upon the head',but not his hand upon the breast. Why are all [the three verses] required? - They are all necessary, for if the Divine Law had only stated once [the expression 'his hand upon the head,] I should have said that it only excluded the hand upon the neck, since it is not on the same plane as the head, but the [laying of the] hand upon the back, which is on the same plane as the head, I would say was not [excluded].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Hence a verse was necessary to exclude the laying of hands on the back of the offering.');">²⁰</span>

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