Komentarz do Liczb 4:13

ודשנו את המזבח AND THEY SHALL TAKE AWAY THE ASHES FROM THE ALTAR — from the brazen altar.

They shall take the ashes. Not that they should place the ashes there (as the word ודשנו might imply).

ודשנו means, they shall remove the ashes from off it (cf. Rashi on Exodus 27:3).

Like a lion. Specifically at the time when they traveled the coals appeared like a lion, however when they camped it was not visible because of the fire of the pyre that was placed above it. At the time of departure they removed this fire and the coal was visible.

ופרשו עליו בגד ארגמן AND THEY SHALL SPREAD A GARMENT OF RED PURPLE THEREON — But the fire that descended from heaven on the altar (cf. Rashi on Leviticus 1:7) lay beneath the garment in the form of a lion during the journeyings; it did not, however, burn it because they inverted a large vessel of copper over it (cf. Yoma 21b).

Vessel. At the end of Perek HaMotzi Tefillin (Eiruvin 104b), Rashi explains that a פסכתר was a copper pot. The word סירות (Shemos 27:3) — “pots” is translated by the Targum as פסכתרות.