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And if it enters your mind to say that the time for removal of the ashes is from midnight by Torah law, how do we perform it earlier and how do we perform it later than the time established by Torah law?
Rather, R' Yoḥanan said: The fact that midnight is the deadline after which the limbs may not be burned is derived from a different source. From the fact that it is stated with regard to the burning of the limbs: All night, don’t I know that it means until morning? And for what purpose, then, does
Therefore, every day the priests remove the ashes from the altar at the crow of the rooster or adjacent to it, whether before it or after it, as on a typical day removing the ashes just before dawn is sufficient. On Yom Kippur, when, due to the fact that he performs the entire day’s service, there
§ The term keriat hagever, translated above as the call of the rooster, is mentioned in the Mishnah as an indication of a certain time. The Talmud asks: What is the meaning of the phrase keriat hagever? Rav said: It is the call of the man; the priest appointed for this task proclaimed that it was t
Rav happened to come to the place where R' Sheila was the most prominent local Torah scholar and Rav was not yet known. There was no disseminator to stand before R' Sheila to disseminate his lecture to the public. Rav stood before him to disseminate the lecture, in the course of which R' Sheila ment