Tamid 4:1 - 4:2

לא היו כופתין אותו (they did not twist/tie together the four feet of the lamb) – of the daily offering with two front hands to themselves or the two legs to themselves, in order that he should not act like the religious practices of the heathens, for such they would do when they performed slaughtering for idolatry (see Talmud Tamid 31b).

אלא מעקידין אותו – the hand with the foot, like the Binding of Isaac.

ראשו לדרום – it was slaughtered on the north side of the altar (see Leviticus 1:11) , according to the law of the burnt-offering, and he would turn its head to the south, and its face to the west, so that if it would sprinkle excrement, it would not be adjacent to the altar.

של שחר – the daily-offering sacrifice was slaughtered on the northwestern corner, because in the morning, the sun is in the east and shines opposite it to the west, and the Biblical verse states (Numbers 28:3): “as a regular burnt offering every day, two yearling lambs without blemish” corresponding to the day for the day (שנים ליום), meaning to say, corresponding to the sun, for the sun is called daylight.

ושל בין הערבים – that the sun is in the west and shines opposite the east, it was slaughtered on the northeastern corner.

בטבעת שניה – far from the altar, because the altar was high and would obscure everything. But Yohanan the High Priest established six orders of rings, in each order, four rings, for twenty-four priestly divisions, and they were established on the floor and made like a bow, and since they would not tie together the daily offering, as it is taught at the beginning of our chapter, they would bring in the neck of the animal in those rings at the time of the ritual slaughtering and would wedge in the head of the ring in the ground.

ונותן מזרחית צפונית – first. After he slaughtered the morning burnt-offering in the northwest corner, he would go to the eastern side and stand on the ground and sprinkle the blood in the utensil below from the SIKRA/red paint and place two gifts which are four, one which is like two on the northeastern corner, and he would go to the southwestern corner and place one which is like two on the southwestern corner.

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.