תּלמוד אויף שמות 40:22

HALAKHAH: ⁶⁴Starting discussion of Mishnah 2. It was stated: He enters South of the candelabrum,⁶⁵Which is standing at the South wall of the Sanctuary, Ex. 40:24, 2.5 cubits from the wall, Tosephta 2:12. the words of Rebbi Meïr; Rebbi Yose says, he enters North of the Table⁶⁶R. Yose admits only one gobelin. The table was at the North wall, Ex. 40:22.. Some Tannaim state, he was entering between the golden altar and the candelabrum⁶⁷Somewhat North of the candelabrum Tosephta 2:12, Babli 51b.. He walks between them until he reaches the North. He pushes with his elbows so that the gobelins should not be burned. When he arrives at the North he turns his face to the South. He retraces his steps lest he be seen as striding between the beams. How does he do it? Rebbi Ḥanina said, he puts the bowl on the ground, throws it in the air and catches it with the fire-pan⁶⁸He and Samuel read the requirement that the High Priest put “his full fistfuls” of incense into the fire that in the Holiest of Holies he also has to use both his hands to put the incense in the fire, which leaves no hand free to hold the cup, forcing an acrobatic feat. Differently Babli 49b.. Samuel said, he pushes it with his hands. Rebbi Joḥanan said, he empties the cup⁶⁹He holds that the biblical requirement is satisfied by using his fists in putting the incense into the cup. Having deposited the fire pan, the High Priest may take the cup into his right hand and empty it into the fire-pan. Opinion not mentioned in the Babli. and it rises straight up, then it expands and descends.

Solomon made ten tables: Solomon made ten tables and deposited them in the Temple Hall, five to the right and five to the left¹¹⁵2Chr. 4:8.. If you would say, five to the North and five to the South, but the table is only qualified in the North, as it is said, and the table put on the North side¹¹⁶Ex. 26:35.. Why does the verse say, five to the right and five to the left? Five to the right of Moses’s table, and five to its left. Nevertheless, only Moses’s alone was used, as it is said¹¹⁷1K. 7:49., the table on which is the shew-bread. Rebbi Yose ben Rebbi Jehudah says, all of them were used, for it is said¹¹⁸2Chr. 4:19., the tables on which the shew-bread is. It was stated: They were put East and West, the words of Rebbi. Rebbi Eleazar ben Rebbi Simeon says, they were put North and South. He who says East and West is understandable; all of them are proper for Service¹¹⁹As prescribed in Ex. 40:22,, the table at the North side of the Tabernacle, and Ex. 40:24, the candelabrum at the South side, standing East-West, opposite the table.. He who says, North and South, would then not the table be in the South and the candelabrum in the North? But was it not stated, the table was in the middle of the Temple, more to the inside, about two cubits away from the wall to the North, and opposite it the candelabrum in the South¹²⁰If they are all in one line, at the North side of the Temple, the long side oriented East-West, all pentateuchal requirements are satisfied. Babli Menaḥot 99a.. The golden altar was in the middle of the Temple, dividing the Temple, inside, a little bit drawn to the North¹²¹While the center of the golden altar exactly determines the middle of the Temple hall for distances measured East-West, i. e., between the entrance and the gobelins shielding the Holiest of Holies, it does not exactly determine the middle of the center of the distance of North to South walls.. All were put inside of a third of the Temple¹²²The first third of the distance between entrance and the Holiest of Holies was empty..