Tamid 29A

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the priest tasked with removing the ashes from the circular heap was never indolent in removing the ashes.

After the ashes were cleared to the middle of the altar, the priests began raising logs onto the altar in order to assemble the arrangement of wood on which the offerings were burned. The tanna asks: And is wood from all the trees fit for the arrangement? The tanna replies: Wood from all the trees

The priest who removed the ashes then assembled the large arrangement of wood upon which the daily offering and the sacrificial portions of the other offerings are burned. It was assembled on the eastern side of the altar, and its opening was on the eastern side of the altar, and the inner end of th

The priests selected from among the logs that were there fine logs from fig trees, as when this type of wood was burned it would become coals rather than ashes. The priest who removed the ashes then assembled the second arrangement of wood, from which the coals were taken to the golden altar in the

The second arrangement was assembled of an amount of wood estimated to produce 5 se’a of coals. And on Shabbat, it was assembled of an amount of wood estimated to produce 8 se’a of coals, as there the priests would place the two bowls of frankincense that accompanied the shewbread and that were bur