Il y avait sept récipients de mesure pour les liquides dans le Temple: le hin [une mesure spécifique du volume de liquide], le demi- hin , le troisième- hin , le quart- hin , le journal [une mesure spécifique du volume de liquide], la moitié - le journal et le quart de journal . Le rabbin Eliezer bar Zadok dit: il y avait des marques dans la mesure hin : jusqu'ici pour un taureau, jusqu'ici pour un bélier, et jusqu'ici pour un agneau. Rabbi Shimon dit: il n'y avait pas du tout de mesure hin , dans quel but le hin pouvait-il servir? Il y avait plutôt une mesure supplémentaire d'une bûche et demie par laquelle il mesurait [l'huile] pour l'offrande de céréales du grand prêtre, une bûche et demie le matin et une bûche et demie le soir.
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שנתות היו בהין (notches/teeth-like marks – the Hin (12 logs or 72 egg-bulks) measure in the Temple had marks – see Tractate Menahot 87b) – there wasn’t there anything but a Hin, and in it there were signs of nails or notches.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Menachot
There were seven liquid measuring vessels in the Temple: the hin, the half-hin, the third-hin, the quarter-hin, the log, the half-log, and the quarter-log. The mishnah now begins to list the liquid measurements. The hin contains 12 logs. Each log is about ½ a liter, so a hin is about 6 liters.
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עד כאן לפר – one-half of a Hin.
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Rabbi Eliezer bar Zadok says: there were markings in the hin measure [indicating] thus far for a bull, thus far for a ram, and thus far for a lamb. Rabbi Elazar bar Zadok says that they didn’t need to have separate vessels for the parts of the hin. Rather there were markings on the hin measuring vessel that would indicate a half of a hin for a bull, a third of a hin for a ram and a quarter of a hin for a lamb (see Numbers 15). So according to Rabbi Elazar bar Zadok, there would have been only four measuring vessels in the Temple, the hin and the three log measuring vessels.
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עד כאן לאיל – one-third of a Hin.
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Rabbi Shimon says: there was no hin measure at all, for what purpose could the hin serve? According to Rabbi Shimon, there was no hin measuring vessel, because none of the sacrifices require a wine or oil libation of a hin, so why have one in the first place?
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ועד כאן לכבש – one-quarter of a Hin. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Eliezer.
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But there was an additional measure of one and a half logs by which one used to measure [the oil] for the minhah of the high priest, a log and a half in the morning and a log and a half towards evening. Rabbi Shimon, after having stated that there was no hin measuring vessel, adds in another vessel so that there will be seven, as stated in the beginning of the mishnah. This seems to have been some tradition, which he is unwilling to dispute. The extra vessel was one and a half logs, and it was used for the oil for the high priest’s griddle cakes minhah which was three logs, half used in the morning and half in the evening. This is similar to the half of a tenth measuring vessel used for the grain of his minhah offering, as we saw in yesterday’s mishnah.
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וכי מה היה ההין משמש – that there wasn’t in the Temple a thing that required a complete Hin, for after all, they had no need for the Hin other than for the anointing oil (see Exodus 30:24) in the days of Moses and that kind of oil still exists, and if so, they had no need for a Hin [measurement].
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אלא מדה יתירה (but there was a further measure) – it was there to complete the seven measurements.
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למנחת כהן גדול – there were for it three LOG of oil, a LOG and a half in the morning and a LOG and a half in the evening.
