Commentary for Zevachim 42:7

למימרא דלמתירין מיחזא חזי היינו דרב חסדא

It is time to sanctify hands and feet at the laver'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' When the priest who was to remove the ashes entered the Temple court to sanctify his hands and feet, he did not carry a light with him, but walked by the light of the altar fire. His fellow-priests in the adjoining chamber therefore neither saw nor heard him, until they heard the sound of the machine drawing up the laver from the pit, and then they knew that they themselves must prepare for the next service.');">¹¹</span> Surely it means that he raised it,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' From the pit. Hence until then it was in the pit, which contradicts R. Hisda's view that it was not lowered until dawn.');">¹²</span>

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