Halakhah for Yoma 3:5

קְטֹרֶת שֶׁל שַׁחַר הָיְתָה קְרֵבָה בֵּין דָּם לָאֵבָרִים. שֶׁל בֵּין הָעַרְבַּיִם, בֵּין אֵבָרִים לַנְּסָכִים. אִם הָיָה כֹהֵן גָּדוֹל זָקֵן אוֹ אִסְטְנִיס, מְחַמִּין לוֹ חַמִּין וּמְטִילִין לְתוֹךְ הַצּוֹנֵן, כְּדֵי שֶׁתָּפוּג צִנָּתָן:

The incense of the morning was offered up between the blood and the limbs. [Not exactly, for we learned above: "He received the blood and sprinkled it. He went in to burn the incense, to adjust the lamps, and to offer up the head and the limbs" — whence it is seen that the incense was offered up between the blood and the lamps, and not between the blood and the limbs. The tanna does not come to apprise us now of the exact order of the offerings, but only to stress that the sprinkling of the blood and the offering up of the limbs did not come one after the other, for the incense intervened, as did the adjusting of the lamps after the (burning of the) incense before the offering up of the limbs.] (The incense) of the afternoon (was offered up) between the limbs and the libations. If the high-priest were old or delicate, they would heat water for him [on Yom Kippur eve] and place it in the cold [hollow of his mikveh], so that the cold be [somewhat] dispelled. (see Bartenura on 1:7)

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