Sukkah 55b Part 1/9

AI summary (may contain mistakes)

How did the 24 mishmaros of kohanim share the many korbanos of Succos? The Mishnah gives out the purim, eilim and sa'ir first, one animal to a mishmar, and then counts how the mishmaros left over divide the 14 kevasim each day. The purim went around in a rotation that each day picked up where the last one stopped. One explanation from research is that everyone wanted the purim because their hides were the most valuable.

Key points

• On Yom Tov the weekly mishmaros were set aside, and all 24 shared the korbanos.
• On the first day, by the Mishnah, sixteen mishmaros take the first day's other animals, leaving eight for fourteen kevasim.
• Each day has one par fewer, so one more mishmar shares the same fourteen kevasim.
• On Shemini Atzeres, a separate Yom Tov, the Mishnah goes back to the payis, the lottery.
• Of the seventy purim, 22 mishmaros brought a par three times and two only twice.

In this shiur

1. 0:00The 24 mishmaros of kohanim

Topics

• Mishmaros
• Korbanos of Succos
• Shemini Atzeres
• Payis