Study Yoma folio 31B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
As the gate is 20 cubits high, and the immersion chamber above it is at least 3 additional cubits high, the water was 23 cubits above the ground of the courtyard. The Talmud asks: How could it be only 23 cubits higher? Isn’t there the cubit of the thickness of the ceiling over the gate and the cubit
§ We learned in the Mishnah: They spread a sheet of fine linen between the High Priest and the people in the interest of modesty. The Talmud asks: What is different that they specifically used a sheet of fine linen? The Talmud answers: It is as Rav Kahana said with regard to a related issue: So tha
Mishnah: The High Priest removed the white garments that he was wearing, descended to the mikveh, and immersed. He ascended and dried himself with a towel. Then they brought him the golden garments of the High Priest, and he dressed in the garments, and he sanctified his hands and his feet. They br
He entered the Sanctuary to burn the morning incense and to remove the ashes from the lamps of the candelabrum; and he left the Sanctuary and returned to the courtyard to sacrifice the head and the limbs of the sheep sacrificed for the daily offering and the High Priest’s daily griddle-cake offering
With regard to the immersion, if the High Priest was old and found it difficult to immerse in cold water, or if he was delicate [istenis], they would heat hot water for him on Yom Kippur eve and place it into the cold water of the mikveh in order to temper its chill so the High Priest could immerse