Tamid 31a

תמיד ל״א ע״א

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Topic

The order of skinning and cutting up the קרבן תמיד, and which כהן carries each piece (משנה, מסכת תמיד)

Overview

This amud continues the משנה that describes, step by step, how the כהן cut up the daily קרבן תמיד after it was slaughtered. He hangs the animal by a hole near the knee instead of breaking the leg, and skins it from the top down. He removes the head, the legs and the right hind leg, handing each piece to the כהן who won it in the lottery. He opens the body, puts the פדר fat over the cut neck, and sends the stomach and innards to be rinsed. Then he separates the organs from each other but leaves each in place, so it comes off with the piece it hangs from. The liver goes with the right flank, the windpipe, heart and lung with the גרה, and the spine and spleen with the left flank. The עוקץ comes with the tail, the finger of the liver and the kidneys, and the left hind leg is last. At the end, all the winning כהנים stand in a row, each holding his piece.

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The steps (14)

1. StatementHanging the animal without breaking its leg
2. StatementSkinning down to the chest and removing the head and lower legs
3. StatementRemoving the forelegs and right hind leg, then opening the body
4. StatementCovering the head with the fat and handing over the innards
5. StatementHow the stomach and innards are rinsed
6. StatementSeparating the organs and removing the breast
7. StatementRemoving the right flank with the liver
8. StatementRemoving the neck piece with the windpipe, heart and lung
9. StatementComing to the left flank and the rib count
10. StatementThe left flank is cut, with the spine and spleen
11. StatementWhy the right flank is called the big one
12. StatementThe haunch is cut, with the tail, part of the liver and the kidneys
13. StatementThe left hind leg is cut last
14. ConclusionAll the כהנים stand in a row holding the limbs