Mesorat%20hashas for Menachot 186:9

על הראש: תנו רבנן ידו על הראש ולא ידו על הצואר ידו על הראש ולא ידו על הגביים ידו על הראש ולא ידו על החזה

and it shall be accepted for him [to make atonement for him].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. I, 4.');">¹³</span> Does the laying on of hands 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?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. XVII, 11.');">¹⁴</span>

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