Commentary for Yoma 57:9

תני אבוה דרבי אבין לא זו בלבד אמרו אלא אף מליקת העוף וקמיצת מנחה בלילה תשרף בשלמא עולת העוף מאי דהוה הוה אלא קומץ

THEY SLAUGHTERED THE CONTINUAL OFFERING: When?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Did this error happen, on the basis of which the high priest was taken down to the place of immersion. The questioner takes the second incident reported in the Mishnah as a sequel to the first.');">¹²</span> Would you say on one of the remaining days of the year? Had it then to be offered up? Hence [you will say that it happened] on the Day of Atonement, but is there any moon-light visible then?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' At dawn.');">¹³</span> - This is what it means: On the Day of Atonement, when the observer said: It is daylight, they would take the high priest down to the place of immersion.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The answer indicates that these two incidents are not to be connected. The error happened on an ordinary day. The second passage refers to the Day of Atonement and states that when the observer had said 'It is daylight', then, on a Day of Atonement, the high priest would be taken down, etc.');">¹⁴</span> The father of R'Abin learnt:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Men. 100a.');">¹⁵</span> Not only concerning this<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Not only a sacrifice that was offered up during the night (instead of in its proper time, after day-break) .');">¹⁶</span> was it said,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That it is to be burnt.');">¹⁷</span> but also concerning the pinching of a bird's head and the taking of a fistful of the meal-offering, [was it said] that if it was done during the night had to be burnt. That is quite right with regard to the bird designated for a burnt-offering, since the fact can no more be undone, but touching the fistful of the meal offering,

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