Commentary for Yoma 2:3
הַפַּיִס הַשֵּׁנִי, מִי שׁוֹחֵט, מִי זוֹרֵק, וּמִי מְדַשֵּׁן מִזְבֵּחַ הַפְּנִימִי, וּמִי מְדַשֵּׁן אֶת הַמְּנוֹרָה, וּמִי מַעֲלֶה אֵבָרִים לַכֶּבֶשׁ, הָרֹאשׁ וְהָרֶגֶל, וּשְׁתֵּי הַיָּדַיִם, הָעֹקֶץ וְהָרֶגֶל, הֶחָזֶה וְהַגֵּרָה, וּשְׁתֵּי הַדְּפָנוֹת, וְהַקְּרָבַיִם, וְהַסֹּלֶת, וְהַחֲבִתִּין, וְהַיָּיִן. שְׁלשָׁה עָשָׂר כֹּהֲנִים זָכוּ בוֹ. אָמַר בֶּן עַזַּאי לִפְנֵי רַבִּי עֲקִיבָא מִשּׁוּם רַבִּי יְהוֹשֻׁעַ, דֶּרֶךְ הִלּוּכוֹ הָיָה קָרֵב:
The second lottery: Who slaughters [the tamid?] Who sprinkles? [etc. All of these services were assigned with one lottery. The one with whom the count ended, as we explained, was awarded. He sprinkled the blood upon the altar after receiving it in the sprinkling bowl (the sprinkler being the receiver), and the one next to him would slaughter (the tamid). And even though slaughtering precedes receiving of the blood, still, because the service of sprinkling is greater than that of slaughtering (slaughtering, as opposed to sprinkling, being kasher with a non-priest, the mitzvah of the priesthood obtaining from receiving on), because of this the first in the lottery was awarded sprinkling and the one next to him, slaughtering. The one next to him removes the ashes from the (inner) altar; the one next to him removes the ashes from the menorah, and so on.] Who removes the ashes from the inner altar? Who removes the ashes from the menorah? Who brings the limbs up the ramp? The head and the [right] leg [with one priest], the two forelegs [with a second priest], the tail and the [left] leg [with a third priest], the breast [the fat of the breast facing the ground, cut on either side, without the heads of the ribs] and the gerah [the place where it brings up gerah (cud), i.e., the throat, to which are attached the windpipe, with the liver and the heart], the two rib cages, the entrails, the flour, [the breast and the gerah, with a fourth; the two rib cages, with a fifth; the entrails, with a sixth; the flour [an issaron for the meal libation of the tamid) with a seventh], and the chavitin [a half-issaron for the meal-offerings of the high-priest, which is offered every day with the t'midim. viz. (Leviticus 6:13): "…half of it in the morning and half of it in the evening," with an eighth], and the wine [three logs for the tamid libation, with a ninth]. Thirteen priests were awarded hereby [(through this lottery) the thirteen priestly services enumerated here according to the order of the Mishnah.] Ben Azzai said before R. Akiva in the name of R. Yehoshua: It [the tamid] is sacrificed in the manner of its walking [in its lifetime. The first tanna holds that the choicer parts are offered first, and Ben Azzai holds (that it is offered up) in the manner of its walking: the head and the foot, the chest and the gerah, the two forelegs, the two rib cages, the tail and the (hind) leg. The halachah is not in accordance with Ben Azzai.]
Bartenura on Mishnah Yoma
English Explanation of Mishnah Yoma
who slaughters [the daily regular offering],
who sprinkles [the blood],
who removes the ashes from the inner altar,
who removes the ashes from the candlestick, 5-10) Who takes the limbs [of the offering up to the ramp],
the head and the [right] hind-leg,
the two forelegs,
the tail and the [left] hind-leg,
the breast and the throat,
the two flanks,
the innards,
the fine flour,
the cakes
and the wine. Altogether thirteen priests merited a task.
Ben Azzai said before Rabbi Akiba in the name of Rabbi Joshua: [the daily offering] was offered up in the way it walks.
In yesterday’s mishnah we learned that the priest who won the first count would remove the ashes from the large outer altar. Today we learn about the second count. There were thirteen different tasks assigned through this one count. The first task would be performed by the person whose finger the counted ended on, and the next would be assigned to the person on his right and so on.
All of these tasks are connected to the “tamid”, the daily offering.
Some of these tasks are self-explanatory, so I shall not delay upon them. I will only discuss those which are not.
Section three: “who removes the ashes from the inner altar”: this is the incense altar.
Sections five-ten: “Who takes the limbs [of the offering up to the ramp]”: we learned in Shekalim 8:8 that the priests would take the limbs up to the middle of the ramp and then before they were brought to the altar, the priests would go read the Shema. The mishnah now lists the parts of the animal. The fifth through the tenth priests all take one of these parts up to the ramp.
Section eleven: “The fine flour” is referred to in Exodus 29:9 and Numbers 28:5.
Section twelve: “The cakes”: this refers to the high priest’s minhah offering, which was offered each day, half in the morning and half at night. These cakes were cooked on a griddle with oil (Leviticus 6:13-14).
Section thirteen: “And the wine”: the thirteenth priest would bring the wine libation (Exodus 29:40 and Numbers 28:7).
Section fourteen: Ben Azzai disputes the order in which the parts of the animal were brought up the ramp and put onto the altar. He holds that the parts of the animal are sacrificed from the front of the animal to the back. The Talmud explains that the order is: 1) head and right hind-leg: 2) the breast and throat; 3) the two forelegs; 4) the flanks; 5) the tail and the left hind-leg.
In contrast, the first opinion in the mishnah holds that they are sacrificed in order of their size, with the one exception that the head comes first because of Leviticus 1:12 which lists the head first.