Related%20passage for Horayot 3:6

כָּל הַתָּדִיר מֵחֲבֵרוֹ, קוֹדֵם אֶת חֲבֵרוֹ. וְכָל הַמְקֻדָּשׁ מֵחֲבֵרוֹ, קוֹדֵם אֶת חֲבֵרוֹ. פַּר הַמָּשִׁיחַ וּפַר הָעֵדָה עוֹמְדִים, פַּר הַמָּשִׁיחַ קוֹדֵם לְפַר הָעֵדָה בְּכָל מַעֲשָׂיו:

What is more frequent than its neighbor precedes its neighbor, [it being written (Numbers 28:29): "aside from the morning burnt-offering of the daily burnt-offering." If it is written "the morning burnt-offering," why is it necessary to state "of the daily burnt-offering"? But the Torah hereby teaches us that whatever is more frequent takes precedence], and whoever is more sanctified than his neighbor precedes his neighbor. [For thus do we find with a Cohein, of whom it is written (Leviticus 21:8): "And you shall sanctify him," and we say: (It is for the Cohein) to open (the Torah blessings) first, and to bless (grace) first, and to take a choice portion first.] If the bullock of (atonement for) the anointed priest and the bullock of (atonement for) the congregation are waiting (to be sacrificed), the bullock of the anointed priest takes precedence to the bullock of the congregation in all of its procedures. [Since the Cohein "atones for" and the congregation is "atoned for" it stands to reason that the "atoner for" should take precedence to the atoned for, and thus is it written (Ibid. 16:17): "and he shall make atonement for himself, and for his household, and for the entire congregation of Israel."]

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