Rujukan Talmud untuk Imamat 6:3: Jerusalem Talmud Yoma, Jerusalem Talmud Shabbat & Jerusalem Talmud Sotah

MISHNAH: Originally, anybody who wanted to remove the ashes¹The ritual removal of some ashes from the altar by a priest in special attire (Lev.6:3), followed by the less formal removal of the remainder of the ashes, Lev. 6:4. from the altar could remove them. If they were many of them, they ran up the ramp²The ramp on the South side of the altar, leading to the top without stairs (Ex.20:23).; he who was first within four cubits³4 cubits from the top of the altar. got the right to do it. If two were at equal times, the overseer used to say to them, show fingers⁴Since people may not be counted, one counts fingers instead. The overseer calls out a large number and then counts down finger by finger repeatedly and the person whose finger is then number 1 is selected. (In modern Hebrew, מצביע no longer means to show a finger, or to point with a finger, but “to vote”; a misinterpretation of this Mishnah..). What do they hold up? One or two⁵If a Cohen has arthritic fingers and cannot lift a single finger, he may show two which, being close to one another, will be counted as one.; but one does not show a thumb in the Temple⁶Since the thumb is far from the other fingers, the thumb and one other finger might erroneously be counted as two persons..
It happened that two were equally running up the ramp when one pushed the other who broke his leg. When the court saw that they might come into danger they enacted that they should remove the ashes from the altar only by lottery⁴Since people may not be counted, one counts fingers instead. The overseer calls out a large number and then counts down finger by finger repeatedly and the person whose finger is then number 1 is selected. (In modern Hebrew, מצביע no longer means to show a finger, or to point with a finger, but “to vote”; a misinterpretation of this Mishnah..). There were four lotteries, and this was the first of them.

HALAKHAH: “Originally, anybody who wanted to remove the ashes from the altar,” etc. Rebbi Mana asked, why did they not establish a lottery for the removal of ashes? Come and see, slaughter is valid by a non-Cohen, but you are saying that there is a lottery⁷Mishnah 2:2.. Removal of ashes is forbidden to a non-Cohen, and you are saying, there is no lottery? Rebbi Mana turned around and said, slaughter is valid only during daytime, but the removal of ashes is valid during the entire night. If you are saying that there is a lottery, he will not get up early for the doubt⁸If the chances are slim that he will be able to serve, no Cohen will show up for the night duty. Babli 22a.. What did you see to say this? All the night⁹Lev. 6:2., he shall remove¹⁰Lev. 6:3.. From here that the removal of ashes is valid during the entire night.

And he shall lift³⁹Lev. 6:3.. There is no lifting unless he left a remainder⁴⁰Otherwise the verse would have said, “he takes away”.. Which ate. there is no eating less than the volume of an olive. If all of it⁴¹The ashes on the altar. was the volume of an olive? You may not take part of it since there would not be the volume of an olive; you may not take all of it since there would not be a remainder. And he lifts … what the fire ate. I could think wood, the verse says, the elevation sacrifice⁴²The verse reads: He shall lift the ashes from where the fire ate the elevation sacrifice on the altar.. If elevation sacrifice, I could think limbs of an elevation sacrifice⁴³Parts of the daily sacrifice which still are recognizable as such.; the verse says, what the fire ate. How is this? He scoops up from what has been consumed in the middle⁴⁴Where it is most likely from the sacrifice, not the fire wood. Sifra Ṣaw Pereq 2(4). and descends. It is an obligation to bring wood before fire, as it is said⁴⁵Lev. 1:7., they shall arrange on thefire, He mentioned wood before fire. If one arranged before he removed, he throws down and removes, disassembles and removes⁴⁶Since it has been stated that the removal of ashes is first in the service of a new day, and arranging new logs precedes the morning daily sacrifice, any arrangement preceding the removal of ashes is simply addition to the preceding day’s service and may be undone for the new day. Sifra Wayyiqra I Pereq 5(11)..