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Perek 5

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The priest with the spoonful of incense and the priest with the gold coal pan filled with coals reached the place between the Entrance Hall to the Sanctuary and the outer altar, on their way to the Sanctuary. One of them took the shovel and threw it between the Entrance Hall and the outer altar. No person could hear the voice of another speaking to him in Jerusalem, due to the sound generated by the shovel. And that sound would serve three purposes: Any priest who hears its sound knows that his brethren the priests are entering to prostrate themselves in the Sanctuary at that time, and he would run and come to prostrate himself with them. And any Levite who hears its sound knows that his brethren the Levites are entering the courtyard to stand on their platform to recite the psalm accompanying the libation, and he would run and come to sing with them. And the head of the non-priestly watch, which stands in the courtyard as the agents of the Jewish people, would position the ritually impure priests and singers at the eastern gate of the courtyard, to make it clear that those priests were not performing the Temple service due to their ritual impurity.

הִגִּיעוּ בֵּין הָאוּלָם וְלַמִּזְבֵּחַ, נָטַל אֶחָד אֶת הַמַּגְרֵפָה וְזוֹרְקָהּ בֵּין הָאוּלָם וְלַמִּזְבֵּחַ. אֵין אָדָם שׁוֹמֵעַ קוֹל חֲבֵרוֹ בִּירוּשָׁלַיִם מִקּוֹל הַמַּגְרֵפָה. וּשְׁלשָׁה דְבָרִים הָיְתָה מְשַׁמֶּשֶׁת, כֹּהֵן שֶׁשּׁוֹמֵעַ אֶת קוֹלָהּ, יוֹדֵעַ שֶׁאֶחָיו הַכֹּהֲנִים נִכְנָסִים לְהִשְׁתַּחֲווֹת, וְהוּא רָץ וּבָא. וּבֶן לֵוִי שֶׁהוּא שׁוֹמֵעַ אֶת קוֹלָהּ, יוֹדֵעַ שֶׁאֶחָיו הַלְוִיִּם נִכְנָסִים לְדַבֵּר בַּשִּׁיר, וְהוּא רָץ וּבָא. וְרֹאשׁ הַמַּעֲמָד הָיָה מַעֲמִיד אֶת הַטְּמֵאִים בְּשַׁעַר הַמִּזְרָח:

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מגריפה (a sort of tympanum)- a large utensil that they would throw in order to produce a sound, and the sound that came out from it is used for three things that will be explained further on.

כהן השומע קולה – if he wasn’t in the Temple courtyard.

רץ ובא – to prostrate/worship with his Kohanim brethren.

וראש המעמד (head of the priestly watch) – when he would hear the sound of the tympanum.

היה מעמיד את הטמאים – of that priestly division who were not appropriate for [Divine] Service.

בשערי המזרח – there are those who say in order to embarrass them and to inform that because of nocturnal defilement he is prevented from Service, in order that he should be careful another time. And there are those who state because of the suspicion, that they should not suspect him that for his labor he went and was prevented from Service, but they knew that because of an accidental defilement of a reptile or another matter he was prevented from [Divine] service. But Maimonides wrote that those with leprosy whose leprosy was already purified, he would place them at the Eastern Gate, in order that they would be ready to be designated to sprinkle upon them the blood of the guilt-offering

המגרפה. כלי גדול שהיו זורקים אותו כדי להשמיע קול, והקול היוצא ממנו משמש שלשה דברים כמדפרש ואזיל:

כהן השומע קולה. אם לא היה בעזרה:

רץ ובא. להשתחוות עם אחיו הכהנים:

וראש המעמד. כשהיה שומע קול המגריפה:

היה מעמיד את הטמאים. של אותו בית אב שלא היו ראויים לעבוד.

בשערי המזרח. אית דאמרי כדי לביישן ולהודיע שמפני טומאת קרי הוא נמנע לעבוד, כדי שיזהר פעם אחרת. ואית דאמרי מפני החשד, שלא יחשדוהו שלמלאכתו הלך והניח מלעבוד, אבל ידעו שמפני טומאת אונס של שרץ או דבר אחר נמנע מלעבוד. והרמב״ם כתב, שמצורעים שכבר טהרו מצרעתם היה מעמידם בשער המזרח, כדי שיהיו מזומנים לזרוק עליהם דם האשם: