Reference for Sanhedrin 26:10

א"ל אביי לרב יוסף מיסמך סבי בשלשה מנלן אילימא מדכתיב (במדבר כז, כג) ויסמוך את ידיו עליו אי הכי תסגי בחד וכי תימא משה במקום שבעים וחד קאי אי הכי ליבעי שבעים וחד קשיא

And R. Judah?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Who employs wesameku for another interpretation. ');">²⁶</span> — He deduces this [actual contact] from the use of the word rosh [head] in this case and in connection with the burnt offering.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. I, 4: And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the burnt offering, which obviously means actual contact. ');">²⁷</span> And R. Simeon? — He does not admit the deduction of head written here and in the case of the burnt offering.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This type of exegesis, deducing identity of fact from identity of language, is called gezerah shawah, and it is a well-established principle that such deduction could not be made by a scholar without a direct tradition from his teacher that that particular identity of phraseology was intended to intimate identity of law. R. Simeon had no such tradition in respect of these two words. ');">²⁸</span>

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