## Yoma Daf 25a

###### Yoma 25a:1
[Yoma 25a:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Yoma/r/25a:1)

מַאי לָאו, בְּאוֹתָן שֶׁזָּכוּ לַפַּיִיס. אָמַר רַב הוּנָא בַּר יְהוּדָה אָמַר רַב שֵׁשֶׁת: לָא, בְּאוֹתָן שֶׁלֹּא זָכוּ לַפַּיִיס.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**What, is** this **not** talking **about those** priests **who won the lottery,** describing how their non-sacred garments were removed from them before they were dressed in the priestly garments? **Rav Huna bar Yehuda said** that **Rav Sheshet said,** rejecting that interpretation: **No,** it is possible to explain that all the priests at the lottery were wearing sacred garments and that, on the contrary, the mishna speaks **about those** priests **who did not win the lottery.** The text describes how the sacred garments they wore during the lottery were removed from them.


###### Yoma 25a:2
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הָכִי נָמֵי מִסְתַּבְּרָא. דְּאִי סָלְקָא דַעְתָּךְ בְּאוֹתָן שֶׁזָּכוּ לַפַּיִיס, ״לֹא הָיוּ מַנִּיחִין עֲלֵיהֶן אֶלָּא מִכְנָסַיִם בִּלְבַד״? וְהָתַנְיָא: מִנַּיִין שֶׁלֹּא יְהֵא דָּבָר קוֹדֶם לַמִּכְנָסַיִם — תַּלְמוּד לוֹמַר: ״וּמִכְנְסֵי בַד יִהְיוּ עַל בְּשָׂרוֹ״!

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara supports this latter interpretation: **So too, it is reasonable** to follow Rav Sheshet’s interpretation of the mishna. **As, if it were to enter your mind** to say that the mishna is dealing **with those who won the lottery** and describes how their non-sacred garments were removed and sacred garments put on, how would one understand the statement: **They would leave only their trousers on them?** One would have to explain that the priests subsequently donned the sacred clothes on top of the non-sacred trousers; then they would remove the non-sacred trousers and replace them with the sacred trousers. **But wasn’t it taught** in a *baraita*: **From where** is it derived **that nothing should precede the trousers** when the priest dresses? **The verse states: “And he shall have linen trousers upon his flesh”** (Leviticus 16:4)? However, according to the proposed interpretation of the mishna, the priests donned the other sacred garments and put on the trousers after them.


###### Yoma 25a:3
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וְאִידַּךְ? הָא לָא קַשְׁיָא, הָכִי קָתָנֵי: עַד שֶׁעוֹדָן עֲלֵיהֶן בִּגְדֵי חוֹל מַלְבִּישִׁין אוֹתָן מִכְנְסֵי קֹדֶשׁ, וְהָיוּ מַפְשִׁיטִין אוֹתָן בִּגְדֵי חוֹל וְלֹא הָיוּ מַנִּיחִין אֶלָּא מִכְנָסַיִם בִּלְבַד.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara asks: **And** how would **the other one,** Rav Naḥman, resolve this difficulty? He would respond that **this is not difficult,** as **this is what** the mishna **is teaching: While the non-sacred garments are still on them they put the sacred trousers on them, and** then **they remove** from them **the non-sacred clothes, and they left** them wearing **only the** sacred **trousers.** Therefore, it is possible to interpret the mishna either way.


###### Yoma 25a:4
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אָמַר רַב שֵׁשֶׁת, מְנָא אָמֵינָא לַהּ, דְּתַנְיָא: לִשְׁכַּת הַגָּזִית כְּמִין בָּסִילְקֵי גְּדוֹלָה הָיְתָה, פַּיִיס בְּמִזְרָחָהּ, וְזָקֵן יוֹשֵׁב בְּמַעֲרָבָהּ. וְהַכֹּהֲנִים מוּקָּפִין וְעוֹמְדִין כְּמִין (בְּ)כּוּלְיָאר, וְהַמְמוּנֶּה בָּא וְנוֹטֵל מִצְנֶפֶת מֵרֹאשׁוֹ שֶׁל אֶחָד מֵהֶן, וְיוֹדְעִין שֶׁמִּמֶּנּוּ פַּיִיס מַתְחִיל. וְאִי סָלְקָא דַעְתָּךְ בְּבִגְדֵי חוֹל — מִצְנֶפֶת בְּבִגְדֵי חוֹל מִי אִיכָּא.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**Rav Sheshet said: From where do I say** that the priests wore sacred garments when the lottery was held? **As it was taught** in a *baraita*: **The Chamber of Hewn Stone was** built **in the style of a large basilica [*basileki*]; the lottery** is held **in the east** of the chamber, **and an Elder** of the court **sits in its west** to provide instruction and adjudicate any doubtful cases. **And the priests stand in a circle in the shape of a bracelet [*bekholyar*], and the appointed** priest **comes and removes the mitre from the head of one of them, and** everyone thereby **knew that the count began from him. And if it were to enter your mind** to say that the priests wore **non-sacred garments** during the lottery, **is there** such a thing as **a mitre among** one’s **non-sacred garments?** This shows that the priests were wearing their sacred garments when the lottery took place.


###### Yoma 25a:5
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אִין — כִּדְתָנֵי רַב יְהוּדָה וְאִיתֵּימָא רַב שְׁמוּאֵל בַּר יְהוּדָה: כֹּהֵן שֶׁעָשְׂתָה לוֹ אִמּוֹ כְּתוֹנֶת, עוֹבֵד בָּהּ עֲבוֹדַת יָחִיד.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
The Gemara rejects this reasoning: **Yes,** indeed, there is such a thing as a mitre that one wears as non-sacred apparel, **as Rav Yehuda, and some say** it was **Rav Shmuel bar Yehuda, taught: A priest whose mother made a tunic for him,** to show her love for her son and her love for mitzvot, **may perform an individual service with it on,** but not communal services. Therefore, it is possible that the priests had non-sacred mitres in the style of the sacred mitres, just as they sometimes had non-sacred tunics.


###### Yoma 25a:6
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אָמַר אַבָּיֵי: שְׁמַע מִינַּהּ לִשְׁכַּת הַגָּזִית חֶצְיָהּ בַּקֹּדֶשׁ וְחֶצְיָהּ בַּחוֹל, וּשְׁמַע מִינַּהּ שְׁנֵי פְתָחִים הָיוּ לָהּ, אֶחָד פָּתוּחַ בַּקֹּדֶשׁ, וְאֶחָד פָּתוּחַ בַּחוֹל. דְּאִי סָלְקָא דַעְתָּךְ כּוּלָּהּ בַּקֹּדֶשׁ — זָקֵן יוֹשֵׁב בְּמַעֲרָבָהּ? וְהָאָמַר מָר: אֵין יְשִׁיבָה בַּעֲזָרָה אֶלָּא לְמַלְכֵי בֵית דָּוִד בִּלְבַד.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
Apropos the *baraita* that was just cited, **Abaye said: Conclude from this** *baraita* that **the Chamber of Hewn Stone** was built **half in the sacred** area, within the consecrated Temple grounds, **and half in the non-sacred** part of the Temple grounds. **And conclude from it** as well that the chamber **had two doorways, one** that **opened to the sacred** area of the Temple **and one** that **opened to the non-sacred** area. Abaye explains these inferences: **As, were it to enter your mind** that the Chamber of Hewn Stone stood **entirely in the sacred** area, how could one say that **an Elder sat in its west? Didn’t the Master say: There is no sitting** allowed **in the** Temple **courtyard except for kings of the house of David alone?** The Elder must therefore have been sitting in an area external to the Temple courtyard area.


###### Yoma 25a:7
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וְאִי סָלְקָא דַעְתָּךְ כּוּלָּהּ בַּחוֹל — פַּיִיס בְּמִזְרָחָהּ? וְהָא בָּעֵינַן ״בְּבֵית אֱלֹהִים נְהַלֵּךְ בְּרָגֶשׁ״, וְלֵיכָּא. אֶלָּא שְׁמַע מִינַּהּ: חֶצְיָהּ בַּקֹּדֶשׁ וְחֶצְיָהּ בַּחוֹל.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**And if it were to enter your mind** to say the opposite, that the chamber stood **entirely in the non-sacred** area, how could **the lottery** be held **in the east? Aren’t we required** to fulfill the verse: **“In the House of God we walked with the throng”** (Psalms 55:15), from where it was derived earlier that it is desirable that the lotteries cause a commotion in the House of God, i.e., in the sacred area of the Temple? If the lottery were held in a non-sacred area, **there** would **not be** a fulfillment of this verse. **Rather,** one must **conclude from this** *baraita* that the chamber was situated **half in the sacred** area of the Temple **and half in the non-sacred** area.


###### Yoma 25a:8
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וְאִי סָלְקָא דַעְתָּךְ פֶּתַח אֶחָד יֵשׁ לָהּ וּפָתוּחַ לַקּוֹדֶשׁ — זָקֵן יוֹשֵׁב בְּמַעֲרָבָהּ? וְהָתְנַן: הַלְּשָׁכוֹת הַבְּנוּיוֹת בַּחוֹל וּפְתוּחוֹת לַקֹּדֶשׁ — תּוֹכָן קוֹדֶשׁ. וְאִי סָלְקָא דַעְתָּךְ פָּתוּחַ לַחוֹל — פַּיִיס בְּמִזְרָחָהּ? וְהָתְנַן: בְּנוּיוֹת בַּקֹּדֶשׁ וּפְתוּחוֹת לַחוֹל — תּוֹכָן חוֹל. אֶלָּא לָאו שְׁמַע מִינַּהּ: שְׁנֵי פְתָחִים הָיוּ לָהּ, אֶחָד פָּתוּחַ בַּקֹּדֶשׁ וְאֶחָד פָּתוּחַ לַחוֹל.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
Abaye continues: **And were it to enter your mind** that the chamber **had** just **one doorway, which opened to the sacred** area, how could the **Elder sit in its west? Didn’t we learn** in a mishna: **Chambers that are built in the non-sacred** area of the Temple Mount, but that **open up into the sacred** area, **their interior is** considered entirely **sacred,** despite the fact that they also occupy land outside the sacred area? **And if,** on the other hand, **it were to enter your mind** that the chamber had just one doorway, **which opened to the non-sacred** area, how could the **lottery** be held **in its east? Didn’t we learn** in a mishna: With regard to chambers that are **built in the sacred** area but which **open up into the non-sacred** area, the space **within them is** considered entirely **non-sacred,** despite the chambers’ location on sacred territory. **Rather, isn’t it** correct to **conclude from this** that the Chamber of Hewn Stone **had two doorways, one that opened up into the sacred** area **and one that opened into the non-sacred** area?


###### Yoma 25a:9
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**מַתְנִי׳** הַפַּיִיס הַשֵּׁנִי: מִי שׁוֹחֵט, מִי זוֹרֵק, מִי מְדַשֵּׁן מִזְבֵּחַ הַפְּנִימִי, וּמִי מְדַשֵּׁן אֶת הַמְּנוֹרָה, וּמִי מַעֲלֶה אֵבָרִים לַכֶּבֶשׁ.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**MISHNA:** **The second lottery** conducted daily among the priests determines the following: **Who slaughters** the daily morning offering, **who sprinkles** its blood, **who removes the ashes** from **the inner altar, and who removes the ashes** and burnt wicks from **the candelabrum, and who takes the limbs** of the daily offering **up to the ramp** to be burned later.


###### Yoma 25a:10
[Yoma 25a:10](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Yoma/r/25a:10)

הָרֹאשׁ וְהָרֶגֶל, וּשְׁתֵּי הַיָּדַיִם, הָעוֹקֶץ וְהָרֶגֶל, וְהֶחָזֶה וְהַגֵּרָה, וּשְׁתֵּי הַדְּפָנוֹת, וְהַקְּרָבַיִם. וְהַסֹּלֶת, וְהַחֲבִיתִּין, וְהַיַּיִן. שְׁלֹשָׁה עָשָׂר כֹּהֲנִים זָכוּ בּוֹ.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
This is how the limbs were divided before taking them up to the altar: **The head and the** right **leg** were carried by one priest, **and the two forelegs** were carried by a second priest. **The tail,** including the lower vertebrae of the spinal column and the fat tail, **and the** left **leg** were carried by a third priest. **And the breast and the throat** and some of the inner organs attached to it were carried by a fourth priest. **And the two flanks** were taken by a fifth priest, **and the intestines** by a sixth priest. **And the fine flour** of the meal-offering accompanying the daily offering was carried by a seventh priest. **And the** High Priest’s daily **griddle-cake offering** was carried by an eighth priest, **and the wine** for libation was carried by a ninth priest. Altogether **thirteen priests prevailed in this** lottery: Nine priests who carried the daily offering and its accompanying elements, and four who performed the slaughter, sprinkling, and removal of ashes from the inner altar and the candelabrum.


###### Yoma 25a:11
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אָמַר בֶּן עַזַּאי לִפְנֵי רַבִּי עֲקִיבָא מִשּׁוּם רַבִּי יְהוֹשֻׁעַ: דֶּרֶךְ הִלּוּכוֹ הָיָה קָרֵב.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**Ben Azzai said before Rabbi Akiva in the name of Rabbi Yehoshua:** That was not the sequence of taking the limbs up to the ramp; rather, the order in which **it was sacrificed** was according to **the way it walks** when alive, as will be explained in the Gemara.


###### Yoma 25a:12
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**גְּמָ׳** אִיבַּעְיָא לְהוּ: כְּשֶׁהֵן מְפַיְּיסִין — לַעֲבוֹדָה אַחַת מְפַיְּיסִין, אוֹ דִילְמָא — לְכׇל עֲבוֹדָה וַעֲבוֹדָה הֵן מְפַיְּיסִין? תָּא שְׁמַע: אַרְבַּע פְּיָיסוֹת הָיוּ שָׁם. וְאִי סָלְקָא דַעְתָּךְ לְכׇל עֲבוֹדָה הֵן מְפַיְּיסִין — טוּבָא הֲווֹ! אָמַר רַב נַחְמָן בַּר יִצְחָק, הָכִי קָאָמַר: אַרְבַּע פְּעָמִים נִכְנָסִין לְהָפִיס, וּלְכׇל חֲדָא וַחֲדָא הָיוּ בַּהּ טוּבָא פְּיָיסוֹת.

**William Davidson Edition - English:**
**GEMARA:** **A dilemma was raised before** the Sages: **When the priests performed the lottery, did they perform a lottery for** just **one service,** such as the slaughtering, and the other twelve tasks were divided among the priests adjacent to the chosen one; **or perhaps they performed a** separate **lottery for each and every service** of the thirteen acts listed? The Gemara answers: **Come** and **hear** a proof from that which was taught in the mishna: **There were four lotteries there. And if it were to enter your mind** that **they performed a lottery** for **each and every service** separately, **there would be many** more than four lotteries. **Rav Naḥman bar Yitzḥak said:** That is not a conclusive proof, because one could argue that **this is what** the mishna **is saying:** The priests **gathered four times for a lottery, but each** gathering involved **many lotteries** for many individual services.