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what does that come to teach us? The Talmud explains: As it was taught in a baraita: In what manner would the priest placing the pieces on the altar do so? He would place the fat right over the place of slaughter, that is, on the cut neck, and bring it up that way, and that is the most respectful w
Mishnah: Before the third lottery, the appointee declared: Let only those priests who are new to offering the incense come and participate in the lottery for the incense. The 4th lottery was open to those new to the service along with those old hands who had already performed it, to determine who
Talmud: A Sage taught in the Tosefta: No person ever performed the service of the incense twice, as a new priest was always found for this service. The Talmud asks: What is the reason that they were insistent that no priest should be assigned this task more than once in his life? R' Ḥanina said:
Rav Pappa said to Abaye: What is the reason for this assertion that the one who burns the incense becomes wealthy? If we say it is because it is written: “They shall put incense before You and whole burnt-offerings on Your altar” (Deuteronomy 33:10), and it is written immediately after that: “Bless,
Abaye said to him: There is a difference between the two: This, the sacrifice of a burnt-offering, is frequent, and that, the burning of incense, is infrequent. There were many burnt-offerings, both obligatory and voluntary, brought during the course of a day, whereas the incense was burned only