Yoma 30

Chapter 30

א אגופיה דמזבח דכתיב (שמות כד, י) וכעצם השמים לטהר
1 to the top of the altar itself,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The word tohar may mean 'pure', 'clear', and thus here the ashes on the top of the altar were shoved aside and the clear place in the middle sprinkled.');"><sup>1</sup></span> for it is written: And the like of the very heaven for clearness.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XXIV, 10.');"><sup>2</sup></span> Why does he just sprinkle first as due with the burnt-offering, and afterwards as due with the sin-offering?
ב מאי שנא דיהיב עולה ברישא והדר יהיב דחטאת ניתיב ברישא דחטאת והדר ניתיב דעולה כיון דעולה היא היא קדמה ברישא
2 Let him first sprinkle as due in case of a sin-offering and after that as due with a burnt-offering! - Because it<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The continual daily offering.');"><sup>3</sup></span> is a burnt-offering, it comes first.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Mid. III, 1.');"><sup>4</sup></span> And why does he just sprinkle north-east and south-west.
ג ומאי שנא דיהיב מזרחית צפונית ומערבית דרומית ניתיב דרומית מזרחית והדר צפונית מערבית אמרי עולה טעונה יסוד וקרן דרומית מזרחית לא הוה ליה יסוד
3 Let him sprinkle south-east and then north-west? - I will tell you: The burnt-offering requires the [projecting] base<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Zeb. 51a, based on Lev. IV, 18: the blood must be sprinkled to a place on the altar below which there is a projecting base.');"><sup>5</sup></span> [of the altar], and the south-eastern corner has no [projecting] base. - Why does he sprinkle first north-east and then south-west, let him sprinkle south-west and then northeast? - Since a master said:<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' V. infra 45a.');"><sup>6</sup></span>
ד מאי שנא דיהיב ברישא מזרחית צפונית והדר מערבית דרומית ניתיב ברישא מערבית דרומית והדר מזרחית צפונית כיון דאמר מר כל פינות שאתה פונה לא יהו אלא דרך ימין למזרח ברישא בההוא פגע
4 All the turns you make in the Temple must be to the right, the east, he comes first to that [north-east].<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In the case of a sin-offering (the blood of which is applied to the corner of the altar) , as he goes up to the ramp of the altar and turns right, he comes to the south-eastern corner first, but he may not sprinkle the blood there, because that corner has no projecting base. He therefore goes on to the north-eastern corner, where he sprinkles. The same order is also followed with a burnt-offering, although there is no ascent of the ramp since the blood thereof was sprinkled below the line round the middle of the altar. He approaches the front of the altar from the south, then turns to the right. [The words 'the east' do not apply here, as the first sprinkling is made, as stated, in the north-east. They are mentioned as a current phraseology arising from the context in which the phrase 'all the turns you make etc.' is first used. V. infra 58b.]');"><sup>7</sup></span> Whence do you know that it is with the burnt-offering that the Divine Law states that it should be offered up in the manner due to a sin-offering? May it not be that it is with regard to the sin-offering<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [The he-goat of the New Moon.]');"><sup>8</sup></span>
ה וממאי דבעולה הוא דקאמר רחמנא עביד בה מעשה חטאת ודילמא בחטאת הוא דקאמר רחמנא עביד בה מעשה עולה לא ס"ד דכתיב (במדבר כח, טו) על עולת התמיד יעשה ונסכו מאי קאמר רחמנא מידי דחטאת שדי אעולה
5 that the Torah says: Offer it up after th manner of the burnt-offerings? - Let not that thought arise in you. For it is written: Beside the continual burnt-offering and the drink-offering thereof'.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Translate ad hoc: 'upon the burnt-offering', instead of 'beside the burnt-offering', cf. supra p. 68.');"><sup>9</sup></span> What does the Divine Law mean by this?
ו תנן התם אמר להם הממונה צאו והביאו טלה מלשכת בית הטלאים והלא לשכת הטלאים הית' במקצוע צפונית מערבית וארבע לשכות היו שם אחת לשכת הטלאים ואחת לשכת החותמות ואחת לשכת בית המוקד ואחת לשכה שעושין בה לחם הפנים
6 Apply the measures [forms] of the sin-offering to the burnt-offering. We have learnt there: The memuneh<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Temple Superintendent, v. infra p. 97' n. 4.');"><sup>10</sup></span> said to them: Go and bring a lamb from the Cell of the Lambs.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In which lambs were kept, which had been passed as fit for sacrifices, in accord with Lev. I, 11.');"><sup>11</sup></span>
ז ורמינהו ארבע לשכות היו לבית המוקד כקטוניות הפתוחות לטרקלין שתים בקודש ושתים בחול וראשי פספסין מבדילין בין קודש לחול ומה היו משמשות מערבית דרומית היא היתה לשכת טלי קרבן
7 Now the Cell of the Lambs was in the north-western corner. Four cells were there: one was the Cell of the Lambs; one the Cell of the Seals;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Shek. V, 3, 5. There were four seals in the Temple and on them was inscribed 'Calf', 'Ram', 'Kid', 'Sinner'; 'Calf' signifying drink-offerings for');"><sup>12</sup></span> one the Cell of the Fireplace,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In which the fire was perpetually maintained, v. Tam. I, 1.');"><sup>13</sup></span> and one cell, in which the shewbread was made.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Tam. 30a.');"><sup>14</sup></span> They raised an objection: There were four rooms in the Cell of the Fireplace, like small rooms opening into a reception room; two on holy ground, two outside of holy ground; and the ends of the flagstones [in the pavement] indicated the mark between the sacred and the secular grounds. What was their use? The south-western was the Cell of the Lambs for offerings;