Commentary for Yoma 55:10

מתני׳ <big><strong>אמר</strong></big> להם הממונה צאו וראו אם הגיע זמן השחיטה אם הגיע הרואה אומר ברקאי מתיא בן שמואל אומר האיר פני כל המזרח עד שבחברון והוא אומר הן ולמה הוצרכו לכך שפעם אחת עלה מאור הלבנה ודימו שהאיר מזרח ושחטו את התמיד והוציאוהו לבית השריפה

BECAUSE ONCE WHEN THE LIGHT OF THE MOON<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' This could not have happened on a Day of Atonement, because on that day the moon has gone down long before dawn, but on one of the last days of a month, in which the moon, to the west of the sun, rises before dawn.');">¹⁴</span> ROSE THEY THOUGHT THAT THE EAST WAS ALIGHT<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' When the sky is clouded the light coming from the moon may be confused with that of the sun. But it never reaches as far as the latter, hence the question of the officer whether the horizon is alight even unto Hebron. The officer may have been Mathia. V. Shek. V, 1.');">¹⁵</span> AND SLAUGHTERED THE CONTINUAL OFFERING, WHICH AFTERWARDS THEY HAD TO TAKE AWAY INTO THE PLACE OF BURNING.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Possibly a room in the Temple, V. Baneth, Pes. IX, note 49.');">¹⁶</span>

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