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Yoma 25

1) [line 12] BASILKI - basilica, a building with colonnades used as a meeting place for merchants and exchange, and as a forum

2) [line 13] MUKAFIN V'OMDIN - are standing in a circle
3) [line 14] KEMIN BACHULI'AR - in the shape of a circle, a spiral [(O.F. nosche) a brooch]

4) [line 19] AVODAS YACHID - an Avodah that is not done for the benefit of the community, such as removing the Kaf and Machtah from the Kodesh ha'Kodashim on Yom ha'Kipurim (RASHI 35b)

5) [line 36] MEDASHEN ES HA'MENORAH (DISHUN HA'MENORAH) - cleaning the ashes of the burned wicks and the leftover oil from the Menorah (see Insights to Yoma 24:2)

6) [line 38] HA'UKATZ - the bone of the spine that is over the kidney (os cruris or os caudae coccygisue - tailbone). In the Torah this is called "he'Atzeh" (Vayikra 3:9). This "limb" includes the Alyah (fat-tail), the Etzba ha'Kaved (the lower lobe of the liver) and the two kidneys (Tamid 31b)

7) [line 38] HE'CHAZEH - the chest
8) [line 38] HA'GERAH - the neck
9) [line 39] SHTEI HA'DEFANOS - the two sides of the animal
10) [line 39] KERAVAYIM - the intestines [in a bowl with the Kera'ayim (feet) on top] (Tamid ibid.)

11) [line 39] CHAVITIN
The Kohen Gadol offers a Minchah every day that consists of 1/10 of an Eifah of wheat flour, made into twelve wafers or rolls. They were fried in olive oil in a flat pan after being boiled and baked. Half of the rolls were offered in the morning and half towards evening. They were completely burned on the Mizbe'ach (Vayikra 6:12). The Chavitin had to be brought from the money of the Kohen Gadol, but he did not have to actually offer them on the Mizbe'ach.

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12) [line 2] MACHTAH - the shovel used to carry coals from the outer Mizbe'ach to the Mizbach ha'Ketores in the Heichal; the Ketores was burned on these coals

13) [line 7] LO SHECHICHAH - the offering of the Ketores is not very common (it is only performed twice a day)

14) [line 7] U'ME'ATRA - and it makes all the Kohanim involved in offering it rich
15) [line 13] CHAVIVUSEI - dearness
16) [line 16] DAD LA'KIYOR - faucets for the Kiyor
17a) [line 28] DERECH NITUCHO - in the order that the limbs are cut off the animal
b) [line 31] DERECH ILUYO - in the order of the quality of the limbs
18a) [line 37] IVRA D'VISRA - the size of the limbs
b) [line 38] SHAMNA D'VISRA - the fatness of the limbs
19) [line 41] PEDER - the fatty membrane that divides the intestines from the stomachs

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