## Bartenura on Mishnah Tamid Chapter 2

###### Bartenura on Mishnah Tamid 2:1:1
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**רָאוּהוּ אֶחָיו.** לְאוֹתוֹ שֶׁתָּרַם אֶת הַמִּזְבֵּחַ:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
ראוהו אחיו – to him that removed the ashes on the altar.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Tamid 2:1:2
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**שֶׁיָּרַד.** מִן הַמִּזְבֵּחַ וְנָתַן אֶת הַגֶּחָלִים בְּמִזְרָחוֹ:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
שירד – from the a;tar amd [it the coals on the eastern side.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Tamid 2:1:3
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**וְהֵם רָצוּ וְכוּ'‏ וְקִדְּשׁוּ יְדֵיהֶם וְרַגְלֵיהֶם.** כְּדֵי לַעֲבֹד עֲבוֹדָה:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
והם רצו וכו' וקדשו ידיהם ורגליהם – in order to perform the Divine Service.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Tamid 2:1:4
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**סוֹנְקִין.** מְסַלְּקִים אוֹתָן. לְשׁוֹן נִעֲנוּעַ וְנִדְנוּד. וְכֵן כִּגְדִי מִסַנְּקָן [פְּסָחִים דַּף ג:], גְּדִי שֶׁהוּא עָיֵף עַל יְדֵי נִעֲנוּעַ וּנְגִיחוֹת שֶׁמְּנַגְּחִין זֶה בָּזֶה. אַף כָּאן סוֹנְקִים מְנַעַנְעִים וּמְהַפְּכִין אוֹתָן בְּצִנּוֹרוֹת לְצִדְדֵי הַמִּזְבֵּחַ:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
סונקים (press them) – remove them, from the language of shaking and moving about. And similarly, like a stuffed goat {Tractate Pesahim 3b], a goat that is tired as a result of the shaking and the goring that they gore one another, even here, they stuff/choke from the movements and they turn them over in the water pipes to the sides of the altar.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Tamid 2:1:5
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**בַּסּוֹבֵב עַל הַכָּבֶשׁ.** כְּלוֹמַר עַל הַכֶּבֶשׁ שֶׁכְּנֶגֶד הַסּוֹבֵב:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
בסובב על הכבש (on the circuit by the ramp) – meaning to say on the ramp, that is opposite the circuit (i.e., a sort of gallery around the altar for the Kohen to walk on).


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Tamid 2:2:1
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**הֵחֵלּוּ מַעֲלִין בָּאֵפֶר.** לְאַחַר שֶׁסִּלְּקוּ לַצְּדָדִים אוֹ לַסּוֹבֵב אֵבָרִים וּפְדָרִים שֶׁלֹּא נִתְאַכְּלוּ, הָיוּ מוֹשְׁכִין אֶת הָאֵפֶר בַּמַּגְרֵפוֹת שֶׁבְּיָדָם וּמַעֲלִין אוֹתוֹ לַתַּפּוּחַ, כְּמִין כְּרִי גָדוֹל שֶׁל אֵפֶר שֶׁהָיָה בְאֶמְצַע הַמִּזְבֵּחַ צָבוּר וְעָשׂוּי כְתַפּוּחַ:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
החלו מעלין באפר – afer they had piled up [the ato th sides or to surround the limbs and fat-pieces that had not been consumed, they would pull the ashes with trowels that were in their hands and bring them up to the pile (i.e., the place on the altar where the ashes were piled up, like a kind of large pile of ashes that was in the center of the altar heaped up and made like an apple.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Tamid 2:2:2
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**פְּעָמִים עָלָיו כִּשְׁלֹשׁ מֵאוֹת כּוֹר.** גּוּזְמָא קָתָנֵי, דְּמֵעוֹלָם לֹא הִנִּיחוּ לִהְיוֹת עָלָיו שְׁלֹשׁ מֵאוֹת כּוֹר:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
פעמים עליו בשלש מאות כור – an exaggeration is taught, for never did they leave three hundred Kor to be upon it.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Tamid 2:2:3
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**וּבָרְגָלִים לֹא הָיוּ מְדַשְּׁנִים אוֹתוֹ.** לֹא הָיוּ מוֹצִיאִין אֶת הַדֶּשֶׁן לַחוּץ אַף עַל פִּי שֶׁהוּא רַבֶּה עַל הַמִּזְבֵּחַ:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
וברגלים לא היו מדשנים אותו – they would not removethe ashes outside, even thogh it was a great deal on the altar.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Tamid 2:2:4
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**מִפְּנֵי שֶׁהוּא נוֹי לַמִּזְבֵּחַ.** שֶׁיִּהְיֶה נִרְאֶה שֶׁקָּרְבָּנוֹת הַרְבֵּה הָיוּ עַל גַּבֵּי הַמִּזְבֵּחַ:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
מפני שהוא נוי למזבח – so that it would appear that there were man sacrifices on the altar.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Tamid 2:2:5
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**מִיָּמָיו לֹא נִתְעַצֵּל.** כְּלוֹמַר מַה שֶּׁהָיָה דֶשֶׁן כָּל כָּךְ, לֹא מֵחֲמַת עַצְלוּת הַכֹּהֲנִים, אֶלָּא לְנוֹי לְהַרְאוֹת שֶׁקָּרְבָּנוֹת הַרְבֵּה קָרְבוּ עַל גַּבֵּי הַמִּזְבֵּחַ:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
מימיו לא נתעצל – meaning to say, that which was so many ashes, not on account of the laziness of the Kohanim, but rather as an ornament and to demonstrate that many sacrifices were offeed on the altar.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Tamid 2:3:1
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**מַעֲלִין בְּגִזְרִין.** שְׁנֵי עֵצִים אֲרֻכִּים וּמְשׁוּפִין הָיוּ נוֹתְנִים לְתוֹךְ אֹרֶךְ הַמַּעֲרָכָה, דִּכְתִיב (ויקרא ו) וּבִעֵר עָלֶיהָ הַכֹּהֵן עֵצִים בַּבֹּקֶר בַּבֹּקֶר, מְלַמֵּד שֶׁטְּעוּנָה שְׁנֵי עֵצִים:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
מעלין בגזרין (heaping up pieces of wood) – two long and planed wood they would put into the length of the pile of wood in the altar, as it is written (Leviticus 6:5): “every morning the priest shall feed wood to it,” which teaches that it requires two pieces of wood (e.g., the word עצים – in the verse is in the plural).


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Tamid 2:3:2
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**וְכִי כָל הָעֵצִים כְּשֵׁרִים לַמַּעֲרָכָה.** דְּקָתָנֵי הֵחֵלּוּ מַעֲלִין בְּגִזְרִין סְתָם וְלֹא קָא מְפָרֵשׁ מֵאֵיזֶה מִין שֶׁל עֵצִים הָיוּ הַגִּזְרִים. וּמְשָׁנֵי, הֵן, כְּלוֹמַר הַכֹּל כְּשֵׁרִים חוּץ מִשֶּׁל זַיִת וְשֶׁל גֶּפֶן דַּאֲסוּרִין מִשּׁוּם יִשּׁוּב אֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל, לְפִי שֶׁהֵן טוֹעֲנִים פֵּרוֹת. וְאִית דְּאָמְרֵי טַעֲמָא, לְפִי שֶׁהֵן נַעֲשִׂים דֶּשֶׁן מִיָּד:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
וכי כל העצים כשרים למערכה – as it is taught (in this Mishnah): “they began heaping up pieces of wood” plainly/undefined, and it doesn’t explain from what species of tree were these pieces of wood. And it responds, affirmatively, meaning to say, that everything is valid except for olives and [grape] vines, which ae prohibited because of the cultivation of the land of Israel because they are laden with fruit/produce. But there are those who state the reason because they ae made into ashes immediately.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Tamid 2:3:3
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**מֻרְבִּיּוֹת.** עֲנָפִים שֶׁל תְּאֵנָה. וְדַוְקָא תְאֵנִים רָעוֹת. דְּלֹא עָבְדִי פֵירֵי:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
מורביות (boughs) – branches of fig-trees, and especially bad fig-trees, that don’t produce fruit.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Tamid 2:3:4
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**וְשֶׁל עֵץ שָׁמֶן.** הָעוֹשֶׂה שֶׁמֶן אֲפַרְסְמוֹן. וַאֲנִי שָׁמַעְתִּי, שֶׁהוּא הָאִילָן שֶׁקּוֹרִים לוֹ בְּלַעַ"ז פינ"ו, וּבַעֲרָבִי צינובו"ר. וְאַף עַל גַּב דְּעֵץ מַאֲכָל הוּא, אֵין בּוֹ צֹרֶךְ כְּמוֹ בְגֶפֶן וְזַיִת, הִלְכָּךְ לֹא אֲסָרוּהוּ מִשּׁוּם יִשּׁוּבָהּ שֶׁל אֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל כְּדֶרֶךְ שֶׁאָסְרוּ הַגֶּפֶן וְהַזַּיִת:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
עץ שמן – that makes the oil of the balsam tree. But I heard that it is a tree that they call PINO in the foreign language, and TZINUBOR in Arabic. But even though it is an eatable tree, there is no need like that of the vine and the olive, therefore, they did not forbid it because of the of the settlement of the land of Israel, in the manner that they forbade the vine and the olive.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Tamid 2:4:1
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**מַעֲרָכָה גְדוֹלָה.** לְפִי שֶׁיֵּשׁ עוֹד מַעֲרָכָה אַחֶרֶת, קָרֵי לְהַךְ מַעֲרָכָה גְדוֹלָה. שָׁלֹשׁ מַעֲרָכוֹת הָיוּ שָׁם בְּכָל יוֹם, אַחַת מַעֲרָכָה גְדוֹלָה שֶׁשּׂוֹרְפִים עָלֶיהָ הַתָּמִיד, וְהַשֵּׁנִית מַעֲרָכָה פְחוּתָה מִמֶּנָּה וְהִיא קְרוּיָה מַעֲרָכָה שֶׁל קְטֹרֶת, שֶׁנּוֹטְלִים מִמֶּנָּה גֶחָלִים בַּמַּחְתָּה לַקְּטֹרֶת שֶׁמַּקְטִירִים בַּבֹּקֶר וּבֵין הָעַרְבַּיִם, וְהַשְּׁלִישִׁית אֵינָהּ מְשַׁמֶּשֶׁת כְּלוּם אֶלָּא לְקִיּוּם הָאֵשׁ, דִּכְתִיב (ויקרא ו) וְהָאֵשׁ עַל הַמִּזְבֵּחַ תּוּקַד בּוֹ, זוֹ מַעֲרָכָה שְׁלִישִׁית שֶׁל קִיּוּם הָאֵשׁ:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
מערכה גדולה – because there is another pile of wood on the altar in the Temple, they called this the large pile of wood. There were three piles of wood on the altar every day, the first was the large pile of wood where they would burn on it the daily [morning] offering/תמיד; and the second was a lesser pile than it which was called the pile of wood of the incense, that they take from it coals with a coal-pan for the incense which they offer in the morning and at twilight, and third is not used a all other than for the establishment of the fire, as it is written (Leviticus 6:5): “The fire on the altar shall be kept burning, [not to go out],” this is the pile for the establishment of the fire.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Tamid 2:4:2
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**וַחֲזִיתָהּ מִזְרָחָה.** מַרְאִית פָּנֶיהָ דְּהַיְנוּ הַפֶּתַח וְהַחַלּוֹן שֶׁל מַעֲרָכָה, לְצַד מִזְרָח שֶׁל מִזְבֵּחַ:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
וחזיתה מזרחה – its appearance which is the opening and the window of he pile of wood on the altar, to the eastern side of the altar.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Tamid 2:4:3
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**וְרָאשֵׁי הַגִּזְרִין.** הַפְּנִימִיִּים הָיוּ אֲרֻכִּים עַד שֶׁהָיוּ נוֹגְעִים בַּתַּפּוּחַ:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
וראשי גזירין – the insides were long until they would touch the “apple”/place on the altar where the ashes were piled up.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Tamid 2:4:4
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**אֶת הָאֲלִיתָא.** חֲרִיּוֹת וְקִסְמִין דַּקִּין תּוֹחֲבִין בֵּין הַגְּדוֹלִים לְהַצִּית הָאֵשׁ. וַאֲלִיתָא לְשׁוֹן אַלְיָה, עַל שֵׁם זַנְבוֹת הָאוּדִים:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
את האליתא (wood of the fig tree, used as kindling wood on the altar) – they insert dried branches/twigs used for fuel and thin chips between the big pieces to kindle the fire. And the word אליתא is the language of tail/fat-tail, named for the tails of the fire-brands.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Tamid 2:5:1
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**בֵּרְרוּ מִשָּׁם.** מִבֵּין מְקוֹם הָעֵצִים:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
בררו משם – from between the place of he wood.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Tamid 2:5:2
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**בְּעֹמֶד חָמֵשׁ סְאִים.** הָיָה בְאוֹתָהּ מַעֲרָכָה שֶׁל קְטֹרֶת כְּמוֹ חָמֵשׁ סְאִים גֶּחָלִים שֶׁמֵּהֶם הָיָה חוֹתֶה לְצֹרֶךְ הַקְּטֹרֶת:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
בעומד חמש סאים (an amount of five Seah of cinders) – in that pile on the altar of incense like five Seah of burning coals, that from them he would take coals out with a pan (see Tractate Yoma, Chapter 4, Mishnah 4) for the needs of the incense.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Tamid 2:5:3
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**בְּעֹמֶד.** כְּמוֹ בְאֹמֶד:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
בעומד – like by mere estimate/sight (באומד).


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Tamid 2:5:4
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**וּבְשַּׁבָּת בְּעֹמֶד שְׁמוֹנַת סְאִין.** לְפִי שֶׁצָּרִיךְ עוֹד גֶּחָלִים לִשְׁנֵי בְזִיכֵי לְבוֹנָה שֶׁל לֶחֶם הַפָּנִים שֶׁהָיוּ מַקְטִירִים מִשַּׁבָּת לְשַׁבָּת:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
ובשבת בעומד שמונה סאים – because they need more burning coal for the two dishes/censers of frankincense of the show-bread [on the table of the Sanctuary], that they would offer up as incense from one Shabbat to the next.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Tamid 2:5:5
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**מַחֲזִירִים אוֹתָן לַמַּעֲרָכָה.** וְנִשְׂרָפִים שָׁם בְּצִדֵּי הַמַּעֲרָכָה הַגְּדוֹלָה:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
מחזירין אותן למערכה – and they would be burned there on the sides of the large pile of wood on the altar.


###### Bartenura on Mishnah Tamid 2:5:6
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**וּבָאוּ לָהֶם לְלִשְׁכַּת הַגָּזִית.** לַעֲשׂוֹת פְּיָסוֹת:

**Bartenura on Mishnah, trans. by Rabbi Robert Alpert, 2020:**
ובאו להם ללשכת הגזית – to perform the lotteries.