Menachos 9:1-2
Menachos 9:1
Two dry measures were used in the Temple – the isaron and the half-isaron; Rabbi Meir says there was the level isaron, the heaping isaron and the half-isaron. The isaron was used to measure all the flour offerings. One didn’t use a three-isaron measure for an offering of bulls, nor a two-isaron measure for an offering of rams; rather one used a single isaron measure two or three times as necessary. The half-isaron was used to measure the cakes of the Kohein Gadol, which were offered as half an isaron in the morning and half an isaron in the afternoon.
Menachos 9:2
Seven liquid measures were used in the Temple: the hin, the half-hin, the third-hin, the quarter-hin, the log, the half-log and the quarter-log. Rabbi Eliezer ben Tzadok says that there were lines on the hin measure indicating how high to fill it for a bull (a half-hin), for a ram (a third-hin) and a sheep (a quarter-hin). Rabbi Shimon says that there was no hin-sized measure in the Temple because it would have served no practical purpose (since the offerings only called for a half-hin, a third-hin or a quarter-hin). Rather, the seventh measure was used to measure a log and a half of oil for the Kohein Gadol in the morning and in the afternoon.
Grateful Thanks for the Mishna Yomit Dedication of
Rabbi Louis Leifer and Mrs. Miriam D. Leifer z"l
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