Comentários de Citação sobre Levítico 23:26

Introduction The eighth chapter of Yoma is the chapter that is still relevant in halakhah today. It discusses how we understand the biblical command to “afflict oneself” (see Leviticus 16:29-31; 23:26-32) as well as the rules and concepts regarding atonement. Our mishnah begins this discussion by teaching the five/six prohibitions that all fit under the category of “afflictions.”

The synagogue attendant would take a Torah scroll and give it to the head of the synagogue, and the head of the synagogue gives it to deputy high priest, and the deputy high priest gives it to the high priest, and the high priest stands and receives it, and reads, [section] beginning] “After the death …” (Leviticus 16:1-34) and “But on the tenth…” (Leviticus 23:26-32). There is a ceremonial passing of the Torah scroll which occurs before the high priest reads it. The first to take it is the synagogue attendant (chazzan). As an aside, this mishnah is an interesting reference to a synagogue that was actually adjacent to the Temple Mount. In 1913 archaeologists found an inscription (see below) on the southern part of the Temple mount which shows that there was a synagogue there while the Temple still stood. The synagogue attendant passes the Torah on to the head of the synagogue (a position referred to in the inscription). The head of the synagogue passes it to the deputy high priest, the second in command, who finally passes it up to the high priest. This procession is clearly meant to pay homage to the high priest. The high priest then reads from the two portions in Leviticus that deal with Yom Kippur.

וקורא אחרי מות ואך בעשור – that is in the [Torah] portion of Emor (Leviticus chapter 23, verses 26-32). For it is permitted to skip in the Torah in one subject matter when it is close in order that the [Aramaic] translator not stop. But if prior to his rolling the Torah Scroll until the place of the skip that the [Aramaic] translator would stop who is translating the verse that the reader read/recite, it is prohibited to skip and to roll, for it would be found that the community is sitting and waiting/anticipating and this is not the dignity of the congregation.