Commentaire sur Middot 1:8
בֵּית הַמּוֹקֵד, כִּפָּה, וּבַיִת גָּדוֹל הָיָה, מֻקָּף רוֹבָדִין שֶׁל אֶבֶן, וְזִקְנֵי בֵית אָב יְשֵׁנִים שָׁם, וּמַפְתְּחוֹת הָעֲזָרָה בְּיָדָם, וּפִרְחֵי כְהֻנָּה, אִישׁ כִּסְתּוֹ בָאָרֶץ:
La salle du feu était en forme de dôme et était une grande pièce, entourée de rebords de pierre, et les anciens des chefs de famille y dormaient avec les clés de la cour dans leurs mains, et les jeunes Kohanim [dormaient] avec leurs vêtements sur le sol.
Bartenura on Mishnah Middot
בית המוקד כיפה – the building of the House of the Hearth was not an upper chamber, but rather an arch, ARKUVLAT in the foreign language made on the land.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Middot
Introduction
This mishnah appears word for word in Tamid 1:1. My explanation here is the same as there.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Middot
מוקף רובדים של אבן (surrounded by stone pavements between steps in the Temple hall, landing) – porticos/colonnades of hewn stone around were sunk in the wall and came out from the wall into the House of the Hearth to the side of the ground, and on top of them were other short stones than then that also came out from the wall, and they were similar to steps one on another.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Middot
The fire chamber was vaulted and it was a large room surrounded with stone projections, and the elders of the clan [serving in the Temple] used to sleep there, with the keys of the Temple courtyard in their hands. The fire chamber was vaulted, and surrounded by rows of stones. On these rows of stones the priests serving in the Temple at the time (the Temple guard was split into 24 houses) would sleep, while holding the keys to the Temple courtyard.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Middot
זקני בית אב – the priestly division of duty/guard was divided into seven priestly divisions according to the days of the week, each one working his day, and the elders of the priestly division of that day would sleep there on those stone pavements.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Middot
The young priests did not get to sleep on the rows of stones. They had to put their bedding down on the ground and sleep on the floor.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Middot
ופרחי כהונה – young men whose hair of their beards begins to flower, and they were guards.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Middot
איש כסתו בארץ – that they were not permitted to lie there on beds, but rather onl on the ground, in the manner that the guards of the courtyards of the kings would do.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Middot
כסתו – the language of pillows and cushions.
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