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1) [line 4] V'CHI TEIMA ATZEI SHITIM CHASIVEI V'LO VATLEI - and if you shall say that the Shitim wood, of which the Shulchan was constructed, is very significant such that the gold leaf that covers it does not take priority over it, and it would not be Mekabel Tum'ah were it not for the fact that it is sometimes transported 2) [line 6] KELEI ACHSALGUS HA'BA'IM MI'MEDINAS HA'YAM - common wooden utensils that come from overseas (possibly from a place called Achsalgus -- TOSFOS) 3) [line 7] KELEI MISMEIS - polished wood; possibly Almog, which is coral-wood 4) [line 10] "HA'MIZBE'ACH ETZ SHALOSH AMOS GAVO'AH V'ORKO SHTAYIM AMOS U'MIKTZO'OSAV LO V'ORKO V'KIROSAV ETZ. VA'YEDABER ELAI, 'ZEH HA'SHULCHAN ASHER LIFNEI HASH-M.'" - "The altar of wood was three Amos high, and its length two Amos; and it was square (lit. it had corners); its length and its walls were of wood. And he said to me, 'This is the table that is before HaSh-m.'" (Yechezkel 41:22) 5) [line 19] "V'ASISA KE'AROSAV V'KAPOSAV U'KESOSAV U'MENAKIYOSAV ASHER YUSACH BAHEN" - "And you shall make its baking pans and its bowls and its supports and its rods (alt. and its rod and its supports)" (Shemos 25:29) 6) [line 39] AL TAHARO SHEL SHULCHAN - on the true surface of the Table (such that the Senifin do not elevate the bottommost loaves off of the tabletop) 7) [line 41] BEINONIYOS - medium-sized, i.e. of exactly six Tefachim
8) [line 41] MIZBACH HA'ZAHAV
9) [line 41] KEREN / SOVEV / YESOD (MIZBACH HA'OLAH / HA'CHITZON)
10a) [line 42] AMAS BINYAN - the Amah used for the construction of the
structural part [of the Mishkan or the Beis ha'Mikdash] 11) [line 44] "V'ELEH MIDOS HA'MIZBE'ACH BA'AMOS, AMAH AMAH VA'TOFACH; V'CHEIK HA'AMAH, V'AMAH ROCHAV, U'GEVULAH EL SEFASAH SAVIV ZERES HA'ECHAD, V'ZEH GAV HA'MIZBE'ACH." - "And these are the measurements of the altar by Amos: the Amah is a Amah and a Tefach; the foundation (the Yesod) shall be a Amah, and the breadth (the Sovev) a Amah, and its border by its edge all around (the Keranos) shall be a Zeres (the span of a hand), and this shall be the higher part of the altar (this refers to the Golden Altar of Incense)." (Yechezkel 43:13) - Our Gemara examines at length each phrase in this verse.
12a) [line 17] CHUT SHEL SIKRA CHOGRO VA'EMTZA - a red line surrounds it at
its middle
13) [line 19] OLAS HA'OF 1. MELIKAH - On the Sovev (see above, entry #9) of the Mizbe'ach, on the *southeastern* corner, the Kohen cuts the back of the neck of the bird with his right thumbnail, making sure to cut both Simanim (the trachea and the esophagus). (If the southeastern corner of the Sovev is crowded with Kohanim offering the Olas ha'Of, then the additional Olas ha'Of Korbanos are offered on the southwestern corner of the Mizbe'ach.)14) [line 20] KEVESH - the ramp of the Mizbe'ach ha'Olah (see above, entry #9) 15) [line 20] MOLEK ES ROSHO MI'MUL ORPAH U'MAVDIL - and he performs Melikah, cutting the back of the neck of the bird with his right thumbnail, making sure to cut both Simanim (the trachea and the esophagus), and he separates the head from the rest of the body 16) [line 21] MOTZEH ES DAMAH AL KIR HA'MIZBE'ACH - he squeezes out the blood by pressing the cut part of the head and body of the bird onto the wall of the Mizbe'ach
17) [line 27] MIZBE'ACH HAYAH SHELOSHIM U'SHTAYIM... - see above, entry #9 19) [line 33] MEKOM HA'MA'ARACHAH - the place upon which the sacrifices were offered 20) [line 34] "VEHA'ARIEL SHTEIM ESREH ORECH BI'SHTEIM ESREH ROCHAV, RAVU'A EL ARBA'AS REVA'AV." (Yechezkel 43:16) - The Mizbe'ach was called "Ari'el," "the lion of HaSh-m," because a fire came down from HaSh-m ("Kel") and rested upon the Mizbe'ach in the shape of a lion. 21) [line 37] RAVCHA LAH AZARAH - the dimensions of the Azarah will expand [at the expense of the dimensions of the Mizbe'ach] (AZARAH: DIMENSIONS) The Azarah of the Beis ha'Mikdash measured 187 Amos in the east-west direction and 135 Amos in the north-south direction. Our Gemara counts out the measurements from east to west, as shown in the next five entries:
22a) [line 39] MEKOM DERISAS RAGLEI YISRAEL - Ezras Yisrael, the area of
eleven Amos by 135 Amos between the eastern wall of the Azarah and the Ezras
Kohanim. Non-Kohanim did not enter the Ezras Kohanim unless necessary (see
Kelim 1:8)
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