Reference for Zevachim 12:1

לא כיפר קמי שמיא

and it did not make atonement' before Heaven?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e.,it has technically made atonement, the laying of the hands not being absolutely indispensable, yet not satisfactorily, in the proper way. On this interpretation it has nothing to do with the question when these precepts were violated.');">¹</span> Did we not learn: And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed; and the priest shall make atonement for him before the Lord;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Lev. XIV, 18.');">²</span>

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