מאי טעמא דאבא שאול דכתיב (שמות ל, ז) בבקר בבקר בהיטיבו את הנרות והדר יקטירנה ורבנן מאי קאמר רחמנא
But Abaye was recounting the order [of the daily Temple service] in the name of a tradition<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [ . This expression seems to mean that Abaye could not give the precise source of his authority but referred it to 'tradition' in general, v. Bacher HUCA, 1924, p. 31.]');"><sup>15</sup></span> and he has the trimming of the lamps interrupted by the blood of the regular daily offering?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' His account thus varies from the statement he makes here.');"><sup>16</sup></span> - I will tell you: This is no difficulty, the one refers to the [order of the daily Temple service] in accord with Abba Saul, the other in accord with the Sages, for it has been taught: He should not trim the lamps and after that burn the incense, but he should offer the incense first and then trim the lamps. Abba Saul says: He should first trim and then offer [the incense] - What is the reason for Abba Saul's view? - For it is written: Every morning, when he dresseth the lamps,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XXX, 7.');"><sup>17</sup></span> and afterwards [it says], he shall burn it?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. in the same passage.');"><sup>18</sup></span> - And the Sages?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' How do they explain this verse?');"><sup>19</sup></span> What the Divine Law intends here is
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From the laws of the commandment is that which they said in a bereita in Keritot 6a that the composition of the incense was eleven spices, four of which are explicit in the Torah and seven of which are a tradition. And that which they said (Yoma 26a; Mishnah Tamid 7:3) that the incense is made either by the high priest or by a regular priest. And [that] which they said (Menachot 49a) that if he did not burn it in the morning, he burns the whole amount of the day - which is the weight of a hundred dinar - in the afternoon. And the weight of a dinar is well known. And [that] every day he would burn half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening, after the afternoon sacrifice before the arrangement of all of the lights, after the [lighting] of five of their wicks - as they were not lit consecutively (Yoma 14b). And [that] they would do this matter [as follows], the priest that merited to burn the incense takes a vessel - the name of which is a teni - heaped full of incense (Mishnah Tamid 6:3), and all of the people leave from between the sanctuary and between the chamber and the altar, as it states (Leviticus 16:17), "And no man will be in the tent of meeting, etc." And he [then] burns [it] in the way that is explained there in the Gemara (Mishnah Tamid 6:3) - that he gently throws the incense upon the coals in the gold pan, and he bows down and exits. And the rest of its details, how it is done, and that which they said during the grinding of the spices, "Crush well, well" - because our Rabbis, may their memory be blessed, said (Keritot 6a) that the voice is good for spices while they grind them - is all in Keritot and in Tamid (see Mishneh Torah, Laws of Daily Offerings and Additional Offerings 3).
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