Como é feito no dia da semana, também foi feito no Shabbath; mas os Cohanim extinguiriam a azarah contrária à vontade dos sábios. [Como havia muito sangue, eles o banhariam no Shabbath. Havia um duto de água atravessando a azarah. Quando queriam apagá-lo, eles entupiam a saída e a água corria pelas laterais para toda a azarah, após o que desconectavam a saída e a água acabava.] R. Yehudah diz: Ele (um Cohein ) enchia um copo com sangue misto [no chão (da azarah)] e o jogava uma vez contra o altar; mas os sábios não concordaram com ele. [A halachá não está de acordo com R. Yehudah.]
Bartenura on Mishnah Pesachim
שהכהנים מדיחים את העזרה – because there was a great amount of blood , they would rinse it (i.e., the courtyard) on the Sabbath for the canal of water would go in the courtyard and when they would want to rinse it, they would stop up the hole where it (i.e., the water) comes out and the water stretches out over its banks and rinses the entire courtyard [for the courtyard was entirely a floor of alabaster], and afterwards they open the hole and the waters come out.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Pesachim
Introduction
The first section of the mishnah teaches that the sacrificial ritual was performed on Shabbat the same way that it was performed during the week. The second section discusses a practice done in order to ensure that blood from each of the lambs had been poured out onto the altar.
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Bartenura on Mishnah Pesachim
מדם התערובות – that is lying on the floor. But the Halakha is not according to Rabbi Yehuda.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Pesachim
As it was done on weekdays so it was done on Shabbat, except that the priests would mop up the Temple court, against the will of the sages. The ritual was performed on Shabbat in the exact same manner that it was performed during the week. However, the sages would have liked to have seen one difference in how the ritual was performed on Shabbat. As they did during the week, so too on Shabbat the priests would mop up the floor of the Temple courtyard, which had surely become quite dirty with the blood from the many sacrifices. They did this against the will of the sages who thought that mopping up the floor is prohibited on Shabbat. As an aside, we can detect here a note of dissonance between the sages and the priests who ran the Temple. Clearly, these priests did not feel themselves subject to the sages’ authority.
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English Explanation of Mishnah Pesachim
Rabbi Judah says: he [a priest] would fill a goblet with the mixed blood [and] he sprinkled it once on the altar, but the sages did not agree with him. Rabbi Judah relates that a priest would fill a goblet with the mixed blood that he found on the floor and then pour the contents of the goblet onto the altar. The reason he would do this is lest the blood of one of the sacrifices had not been sprinkled on the altar. Not having its blood spilled on the altar would render the sacrifice invalid. It was assumed that some of the blood of all of the animals would be in this mixture and therefore pouring it out was sort of an insurance policy. The sages did not agree with Rabbi Judah that this was done in the Temple.
