English: It is said here “and pinch off its head” and of the bird chatas “and pinch off its head” — just as there from opposite the nape, so here from opposite the nape.
In the sugya: The shared language “u-malak et rosho” creates a gezerah shavah between the bird olah and the bird chatas. The place of the cut — opposite the nape — transfers from the chatas to the olah.
Type of Learning
Gezerah shavah of malak — place of the cut from the bird chatas.
What Is Learned
Melikah of the bird olah is performed from the back of the neck (mimul oref), just as with the bird chatas. The identical phrasing in the two contexts is the source of the shared location of the act.