Tamid 5:4 - 5:5

בזק – a small spoon.

מלא וגדוש קטורת – and it was within the large spoon. For if there wasn’t the large [spoon], since the small one was overflowing/heaped up, the incense would scatter to ground while he was walking. But with the large spoon alone, it was not sufficient, for it was honor towards above (i.e., Heaven) to empty from the overflowing spoon on the coals at the time of he offering [of the incense].

וכסוי היה לו – to the vessel/dish/cense

מטוטלת (pad or cushion made of cloth) – My Rabbis explained that it was similar to a ring that was a cover from above, and through it he would carry the cover and remove it from upon the small spoon. But in the Arukh it explains that a מטולטת is a piece of cloth, like מטולטת in the chapter [five of Tractate Shabbat, Mishnah 3]: “In What Does an Animal Go Out [on the Sabbath],” that the camel should not be taken out [on the Sabbath] with a pad on its back, that was placed upon the cover of the dish/vessel, like a scarf for beauty.

מי שזכה במכתה (he who won the right to the ashes with the coal-pan)- to bring the coals to the golden altar. And there was no lottery in this, but whomever won with the incense through the lottery states to that person who is with him, “you merit with me in the coal-pan” (see Tractate Yoma 25b – that according to Rabbi Yehuda, there was no lottery with the coal-pan, but that the person to the right of the winner of the incense was asked to join him).

וחתה (and took the coals out with a pan) -from the thoroughly lighted coals in the center (see Tracate Tamid, Chapter 1, Mishnah 4) we don’t read here, for they are close to the ashes, for on the contrary, those coals that were thick and burning he would take out with a pan.

ןעירן בשל זהב (and he emptied them out into the [firepan] of gold) – but he would not take the coals out with the golden pan, in order that the it would not be ruined, for the Torah had compassion on the money of the Israelites.

נתפזר ממנו כקב גחלים – for he would take the coals out with the silver pan of four Kabs and empty them into that (i.e., the pan) of gold which is three. , and in order that that he would bring it full, he would empty it at the end, tand this is the manner of cleansing of above.

מכבדן לאמה – to the water channel that was in the Temple courtyard, so that the Kohanim would not scalded.

ובשבת – that it is prohibited to put out the flame.

כופה עליהן פסכתר (cover them with a large pot) – one large utensil. The Aramaic translation of its pots isפסכתרוותיה /its large vessels/pots.

לתך – one-half of Kor, fifteen Se’ah, and the Kor is thirty Se’ah.

שתי שרשרות היו בה – on the large pot. One from this sides and one from the other side, because through it they lower the ashes from above the altar, as we said nearby, and when they lower it full of ashes through the ground of the ramp which is slanted, one Kohen in front of him pulls it with the chain and one Kohen who was above from the large pot and grabs hold of the chin that is before him, so that it will not roll on the slope of the ramb.

ועל הרץ – that is found in the Temple courtyard on the Sabbath, we cover it with a large pot in order that the Kohanim will not be defiled with it. We are not able to remove it from there on the Sabbath, for on such an act as being out of harmony with the celebration of the Sabbath, they (i.e., the Rabbis) decreed, and even in the Temple. But especially, when it is found in the Temple courtyard, but if it ws found in the large hall of the golden altar or in the hall/porch leading to the interior of the Tempole, we remove it immediately, and even on the Sabbath day.