Se avesse iniziato ad annuire, il pirchei kehunah (i giovani sacerdoti) avrebbe colpito prima di lui con (etzba tzreidah) [("pirchei kehunah" :) I giovani, le cui barbe hanno appena iniziato a spuntare (scarafaggio) sono chiamati "pirchei". ("etzba tzreidah" :) il dito vicino al pollice. "tzreidah" = "tzarata deda" ("questa corrispondenza), cioè la corrispondenza del pollice, che lo confina. Unirebbero il pollice al dito più vicino e lo rilasciano con uno schiocco in modo che l'alto sacerdote non addormentarsi], e gli avrebbero detto: "Il nostro signore, sommo sacerdote, alzati [in piedi] e rimuovilo (il tuo calore) una volta sul pavimento [di marmo]", [il fresco del piedi che dissipano la sonnolenza. "hafeg" = "rimuovi", come in (Beitzah 14a): "mefigin ta'aman" ("il loro sapore è rimosso")]], e lo terrebbero così occupato fino al momento della macellazione (di la tigre del mattino).
Bartenura on Mishnah Yoma
פרחי כהונה – young men when the hair of heir beards begins to flower are called those who blossom.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Yoma
Introduction
This mishnah shows how the young priests would keep the high priest awake all night on the eve before Yom Kippur.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Yoma
באצבע צרדה – the finger that is closest to the thumb. And the language of צרדה/snap is (see Talmud Yoma 19b – a phonetic play), the match to this (the middle finger) what is it? The thumb, i.e., the sound produced with these two fingers, the nearest to the thumb, closest to it, and they would combine the thumb with the finger closest to it, and it would slip off and strike his palm and produces a sound so that the High Priest doesn’t sleep.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Yoma
If he wished to sleep, young priests would snap their middle finger before him and say: “Sir high priest, stand up and drive the sleep away by standing once on this [cold] floor. There were two things that the young priests, those with the strength to stay up all night, would do to keep the high priest awake. First they would snap their fingers at him and then they would tell him to stand on the cold floor. The rabbis believed that standing on a cold floor would wake up a tired person. If you’re not sure, try this yourself.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Yoma
עמוד – on your feet.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Yoma
They would keep him busy until the time for the slaughtering [of the daily morning offering] would arrive. Finally, they made sure to keep him busy all night so that he wouldn’t fall asleep.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Yoma
והפג אחת על הרצפה – of marble in order to remove the head, for the coolness of the feet removes the sleep and the word הפג is the language of removal, like (Talmud Betza 14a) like spices “losing their taste” when pounded the day before.
