Related%20passage for Sanhedrin 26:9

תנא סמיכה וסמיכת זקנים בג' מאי סמיכה ומאי סמיכת זקנים א"ר יוחנן מיסמך סבי

And R. Simeon?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Does he not admit the superfluity of 'and they shall lay'? ');">²³</span> — Had it been so written,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' As R. Judah suggests. ');">²⁴</span> I might have translated 'al[on], 'in proximity'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., that the hands need not actually be laid on the head but only brought near. The word wesameku makes it clear. ');">²⁵</span>

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