Commentary for Zevachim 131:6

<br><br><big><strong>הדרן עלך קדשי קדשים</strong></big><br><br>

[teaches that] even if he drained the blood of the body but did not drain the blood of the head [it is still a valid burnt-offering].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 'A burnt-offering' here is superfluous, since the context makes it perfectly clear. Hence it is interpreted to mean that it still counts as such even if something of its rites is omitted.');">⁸</span> You might think that even if he drained the blood of the head, but not the blood of the body [it is valid]; therefore it states, 'it is'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This is emphatic, intimating that it must be done with the proper rites.');">⁹</span>

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