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Mishnayos Yoma Perek 1 Mishnah 5

יומא פרק א׳ משנה ה׳

5

The Elders of the court who read the order of the service of the day before the High Priest passed him to the Elders of the priesthood, and they took him up to the House of Avtinas. And they administered him an oath and took leave of him and went on their way. When they administered this oath they said to him: My Master, High Priest. We are agents of the court, and you are our agent and the agent of the court. We administer an oath to you in the name of Him who housed His name in this House, that you will not change even one matter from all that we have said to you with regard to the burning of the incense or any other service that you will perform when alone. After this oath, he would leave them and cry, and they would leave him and cry in sorrow that the oath was necessary.

מְסָרוּהוּ זִקְנֵי בֵית דִּין לְזִקְנֵי כְהֻנָּה, וְהֶעֱלוּהוּ לַעֲלִיַּת בֵּית אַבְטִינָס, וְהִשְׁבִּיעוּהוּ וְנִפְטְרוּ וְהָלְכוּ לָהֶם. וְאָמְרוּ לוֹ, אִישִׁי כֹהֵן גָּדוֹל, אָנוּ שְׁלוּחֵי בֵית דִּין, וְאַתָּה שְׁלוּחֵנוּ וּשְׁלִיחַ בֵּית דִּין, מַשְׁבִּיעִין אָנוּ עָלֶיךָ בְּמִי שֶׁשִּׁכֵּן שְׁמוֹ בַבַּיִת הַזֶּה, שֶׁלֹּא תְשַׁנֶּה דָבָר מִכָּל מַה שֶּׁאָמַרְנוּ לָךְ. הוּא פוֹרֵשׁ וּבוֹכֶה, וְהֵן פּוֹרְשִׁין וּבוֹכִין:

ה׳
Bartenura

The elders of the Court would transfer him. Those who had read before him the order of the day.

לזקני כהונה – to teach him the priest’s taking handfuls of incense (see Talmud Yoma 19a, which was the task of the House of Avtinas to teach him the manipulation of the incense), as it says (Leviticus 16:12): “two handfuls of finely ground aromatic incense” and this was difficult work.

The House of Avtinas. There they would make the incense.

והשביעוהו – that he would not become a Sadducee to improve the incense upon the coal-pan from outside and to bring it in from inside, as they expound (Leviticus 16:2): “for I appear in the cloud over the cover,” from the cloud of the of smoke of the incense it will come, and then I will appear over the cover, but the matter is not this, for the Biblical verse states there (Leviticus 16:13): “He shall put the incense on the fire before the LORD…”

הוא פורש ובוכה – for they suspected him of being a Sadducee.

והן פורשין ובוכין – that they suspected him, as the Master said (Shabbat 97a): “A person who suspects those who are fit, is whipped on his body.”

מסרוהו זקני בית דין. שקראו לפניו בסדר היום:

לזקני כהונה. ללמדו חפינת הקטורת שנאמר (שם ט״ז) ומלא חפניו קטורת סמים. ועבודה קשה היתה:

בית אבטינס. הם העושים את הקטורת וכותשים אותה ומערבין סממניה:

והשביעוהו. שלא יהא צדוקי לתקן הקטורת על המחתה מבחוץ ולהכניס מבפנים שהם דורשין כי בענן אראה על הכפורת (ויקרא ט״ז), כי בענן עשן הקטורת יבא ואז אראה על הכפורת. ואין הדבר כן, שהרי הכתוב אומר (שם) ונתן את הקטורת על האש לפני ה׳:

הוא פורש ובוכה. שחשדוהו לצדוקי:

והן פורשין ובוכין. על שחשדוהו. דאמר מר [שבת צ״ז.] החושד בכשרים לוקה בגופו: