Yoma 33a

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Topic

Finishing the כהן גדול's שחיטה, and אביי's order of the daily עבודה with the גמרא's sources for each link

Overview

This עמוד opens at the end of the discussion of the כהן גדול's שחיטה on יום כיפור. The גמרא confirms that cutting most of the סימנים is fully valid, with not even a rabbinic פסול. Another כהן still finishes the cut, because completing it is a מצוה. Then אביי lays out, from received tradition and following אבא שאול, the full order of the daily services in the מקדש. His list runs from the morning wood piles to the afternoon תמיד, and it closes with the פסוק 'עליה השלם כל הקרבנות כולן'. The גמרא then goes through the list item by item to find a source or reason for each one. A ברייתא and סברא show that the big pile comes before the קטורת pile. The double 'עליה' shows that the קטורת pile comes before the two logs. Three answers (רבי ירמיה, רבינא, רב אשי) defend why the logs come before cleaning the inner מזבח. For why the inner מזבח comes before the lamps, אביי admits he knows it only by tradition, while רבא cites ריש לקיש's rule 'אין מעבירין על המצות', which continues on the next עמוד.

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The steps (27)

1. ResolutionCutting the majority is fully valid
2. ChallengeWhy finish the cut at all?
3. ResolutionFinishing the cut is a מצוה
4. Statementאביי's order: the morning preparations
5. Statementאביי's order: from the תמיד's blood to the נסכים
6. Statementאביי's order: ending with the afternoon תמיד
7. ProofVerse source: all offerings are completed upon the morning עולה
8. QuestionWhat is the source that the big wood pile comes first?
9. ResponseA ברייתא reads the two halves of one פסוק as the two piles
10. ChallengeWhy not reverse the two readings?
11. ResolutionThe big pile matters more because it brings more כפרה
12. ChallengeThe קטורת pile has a special importance of its own
13. ResolutionGreater כפרה still outweighs being used inside
14. ResolutionA second answer: the big pile can replace the small one
15. QuestionWhat is the source that the קטורת pile comes before the two logs?
16. Response'Upon it' and not upon the other pile, so the other pile already exists
17. ChallengeThe word 'upon it' is already used for something else
18. ResolutionThe word 'upon it' appears twice
19. StatementThe two logs come before cleaning the inner altar
20. ChallengeThe two logs do not help the incense
21. ResolutionWood in general makes the incense possible
22. ResolutionOnce he started the piles, he finishes
23. ResolutionSometimes the big pile does supply the coals
24. StatementCleaning the inner altar comes before cleaning five lamps
25. QuestionAsking for the reason
26. Responseאביי: I know it by tradition only
27. Responseרבא: we do not pass over a מצוה