Mesorat%20hashas for Yoma 50:16

דכולי עלמא מיהת ראש קרב ברישא מנא לן דתניא מניין לראש ופדר שקודמין לכל האברים ת"ל (ויקרא א, יב) את ראשו ואת פדרו וערך ואידך פדר אחרינא

and R'Jose the Galilean follow the order of quality of the meat, but one takes into consideration the size [of the limbs], the other the fatness. Why does the head go together with the [right] hind-leg?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [Var. lec. transfer here both the question from Ezek. XXIV, 4 and the answer that follows. In this reading these refer to 'our Tanna' who mentions 'the fore-legs' before the hind-legs whereas in Ezekiel the thigh (hind-leg) is given preference, v. Bah.]');">¹³</span> Because the head has many bones; one attaches the [meaty] hindleg to it. All<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ben 'Azzai, R Jose, R. Akiba, R. Jose the Galilean, whilst basing their order on different considerations, all have the head offered up first.');">¹⁴</span> agree at any rate that the head is offered up first. Whence do we derive this rule? Because it has been taught: Whence do we know that the head and the suet come before all other parts [of the animal]? To teach us that, it says: He shall lay it in order with its head and its suet.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. I, 12. Infra 26a.');">¹⁵</span> And as to the other 'suet',<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. I, 8: The pieces, and the head, and the suet. It was included in the other pieces.');">¹⁶</span>

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