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Mishnayos Tamid Perek 4 Mishnah 2

תמיד פרק ד׳ משנה ב׳

2

When the priest flayed the hide of the daily offering after its slaughter, he would not break the animal’s leg in the typical manner of flaying an animal; rather, he punctures the leg from within each knee of the hind leg and suspends the animal by placing these holes on two hooks, in order to flay the animal’s hide. The priest began flaying from the top of the inverted animal, descending until he would reach the hide of the breast. Once he reached the breast, he severed the lamb’s head and gave it to the priest who won the right to take it up to the ramp. Next he severed the four legs below the knee and gave them to the priest who won the right to take them up to the ramp. He completed the flaying of the remaining hide from the breast down, and then the priest cut the heart and drained its blood. Next the priest severed the remaining upper parts of the forelegs and gave them to the priest who won the right to take them up to the ramp. Afterward he moved up to the remaining upper part of the right hind leg, severed it, and gave it to the priest who won the right to take it up to the ramp; and the animal’s two testicles were cut along with the right leg, leaving the animal suspended by its left hind leg. Then the priest tore open the animal’s midsection, resulting in the innards of the entire animal being exposed before him. He took the fats and placed them on the place of slaughter on the animal’s head above it, to conceal the place where it was severed while the priest would take the head to the altar. Then the priest took the innards and gave them to the priest who won the right to take them up to the ramp, in order to rinse them first. And with regard to the stomach, in which there is a significant amount of waste, the priests would rinse it in the rinsing site located in the south of the courtyard, east of the Gate of the Water, and they rinsed it as much it required. And with regard to the innards, the priests would rinse them three times at a minimum, on the marble tables that were positioned between the pillars in the slaughterhouse.

לֹא הָיָה שׁוֹבֵר בּוֹ אֶת הָרֶגֶל, אֶלָּא נוֹקְבוֹ מִתּוֹךְ עַרְכּוּבּוֹ וְתוֹלֶה בוֹ. הָיָה מַפְשִׁיט וְיוֹרֵד עַד שֶׁהוּא מַגִּיעַ לֶחָזֶה. הִגִּיעַ לֶחָזֶה, חָתַךְ אֶת הָרֹאשׁ וּנְתָנוֹ לְמִי שֶׁזָּכָה בוֹ. חָתַךְ אֶת הַכְּרָעַיִם וּנְתָנָן לְמִי שֶׁזָּכָה בָהֶן. מֵרַק אֶת הַהֶפְשֵׁט, קָרַע אֶת הַלֵּב וְהוֹצִיא אֶת דָּמוֹ. חָתַךְ אֶת הַיָּדַיִם וּנְתָנָן לְמִי שֶׁזָּכָה בָהֶן. עָלָה לָרֶגֶל הַיְמָנִית, חֲתָכָהּ וּנְתָנָהּ לְמִי שֶׁזָּכָה בָהּ, וּשְׁתֵּי בֵיצִים עִמָּהּ. קְרָעוֹ, וְנִמְצָא כֻלּוֹ גָלוּי לְפָנָיו. נָטַל אֶת הַפֶּדֶר וּנְתָנוֹ עַל בֵּית שְׁחִיטַת הָרֹאשׁ מִלְמַעְלָן. נָטַל אֶת הַקְּרָבַיִם וּנְתָנָן לְמִי שֶׁזָּכָה בָהֶם לַהֲדִיחָן. וְהַכֶּרֶס מְדִיחִין אוֹתָהּ בְּבֵית מְדִיחִין כָּל צָרְכָּהּ. וְהַקְּרָבַיִם מְדִיחִין אוֹתָן שְׁלשָׁה פְעָמִים בְּמִעוּטָהּ, עַל שֻׁלְחָנוֹת שֶׁל שַׁיִשׁ שֶׁבֵּין הָעַמּוּדִים:

ב׳
Bartenura

לא היה שובר את הרגל – like the manner in which the slaughterers would do when they cut/sever the leg with the flesh that is upon it, but rather, they make an incision from under the knee and its surrounding parts that is sold with the head and they suspend it and flay the leg with the the rest of the animal. But surely it comes to tell us that the knee is included in the flying.

ערכובו (ham) – like the knee (the inner part of the knee).

מרק את ההפשט (stripped off the hide) – for behold it was not flayed other than to the breast and the hide was still attached to it.

נטל את הפדר – [forbidden] fat.

נותנו על בית השחיטה – this is the way of honor/respect of above (i.e., God), so that he would not see the soiling/staining of the blood from the ritual slaughtering.

והכרס מדיחין אותה – from the secretions/excrement that is within it, separately.

בבית המדיחין – a chamber that was in the Temple. But they would not rinse it with the rest of the innards, so that it would not become soiled.

שלשה פעמים – since the feces do not come out from them other than with pressure, because they are thin.

במיעוטה – at the very least. But if he wishes to supplement rinsing them more than three times, he increases it.

לא היה שובר בו את הרגל. כדרך שהטבחים עושין שמחתכין את הרגל עם העור שבו, אלא נוקבין מתחת הארכובה הנמכרת עם הראש ותולה בו ומפשיט הרגל עם שאר הבהמה. והא קמשמע לן דהכרעים בכלל הפשט הן:

ערכובו. כמו ארכובו:

מירק את ההפשט. שהרי לא הופשט אלא עד החזה ועדיין העור מחובר בו:

נטל הפדר. החלב:

ונותנו על בית השחיטה. וזו היא דרך כבוד של מעלה שלא יראה לכלוך דם השחיטה:

והכרס מדיחין אותה. מן הפרש שבתוכה, בפני עצמה:

בבית המדיחין. בלשכה שהיתה במקדש. ולא מדיחין אותה עם שאר הקרבים, שלא תטנפם:

שלשה פעמים. שאין הרעי יוצא מהן אלא בדוחק לפי שהן דקים:

במיעוטה. לכל הפחות. ואם רצה להוסיף להדיחן יותר משלשה פעמים, מוסיף: