Hello chevre and welcome back to our pre-Pesach Mishnayos series where we are learning together Mishnayos related to the period of time between Purim and Pesach. We are now currently discussing Yud Nissan, the tenth of Nissan. This is our second mishna related to that date. As we learnt in our prior in yesterday's mishna, we learned that in Pesach Mitzrayim, the Hakadosh Baruch Hu commanded Moshe that all the Jews should take the animal, the lamb that was going to be used for the Karban Pesach on the tenth of Nissan. Many understood the reason besides for many other reasons, but one of the reasons it was taken on the tenth of Nissan is because an animal that's going to be used as a Karban needs to have four days in which it can be checked to make sure that it has no blemishes, no mumim. And therefore if you start on the tenth, and then you have the tenth, eleventh, twelfth, you have the eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, and then on the fourteenth you can shecht it. And so today's mishna is found in מסכת ערכין פרק ב משנה ה where the mishna tells us that they always kept a minimum amount of lambs in the Beis Hamikdash in order to have them ready for the Karban Tamid. We're not discussing all the other karbanos that they would have, the mishna is focused specifically on the Karban Tamid. The Karban Tamid were brought, there was one Karban Tamid brought every morning, the first karban of the day, and then there was a Karban Tamid brought in the afternoon, which was always the last karban brought in the Beis Hamikdash during the day except for the Karban Pesach. The Karban Pesach as we will learn will always is brought after the קרבן תמיד של בין הערביים, the afternoon Karban Tamid. But that being said, the mishna is going to show us and tell us and teach us that there was a minimum amount of sheep they would keep in what was called the Lishkas Hatelayim, which was the room on the Har Habayis where they would keep the lamb, the sheep, the lambs, the sheep, in order to be able to check them ahead of them being brought as a karban. And although as you might be thinking to yourself, right, if you need four days, then it means there should be at least a minimum of eight animals that are being used or being checked in the Beis Hamikdash at any given time, but the way it would work, the cycle would be is that they would bring the new animals right before the evening and check them and then starting the next day they would take out two in order to use them as the Karbanei Tamid. And therefore, yes, there were always eight, but in reality there were six because two were brought in and two were left out, so you're always having six in reserve for the next three days. What will be interesting we'll see why they thought they needed to keep at least six as well, and so let's see the mishna together inside and we will see. So the mishna begins, again, ערכין פרק ב משנה ה. The mishna is part of a series of Mishnayos found in that perek that are things of not less than and not more than type of Mishnayos and it's a whole series, but our mishna is אין פוחתין משישה טלאים hamvukarim bilishkas hatelayim that are being checked in the Lishkas Hatelayim, that are being checked from mumim that are in this room where they kept the sheep in the Har Habayis. Kedei so that לשבת ולשני ימים טובים because you could see a situation where you first have Shabbos and then you have the two days ימים טובים של ראש השנה. You have a two-day Rosh Hashanah. This is one of those few Mishnayos that brings proof that even in the time of the Beis Hamikdash or around that time that Rosh Hashanah even in Eretz Yisrael and even in Yerushalayim was being kept for two days. So if you had to worry about two days of Rosh Hashanah and then a Shabbos as well, you would you needed at least six in reserve that were fully checked because you wouldn't have time to check them before. Finally, umosifin aleihem, but obviously you don't that's the minimum amount you need in the Lishkas Hatelayim, but of course you can keep more. Now practically I don't know how many they kept, but the mishna is telling us the minimums and telling us that there was no maximum. So that is and like I said and therefore this is derived from the idea of the fact that the original Karban Pesach was taken on Yud Nissan and that's why this mishna is also related to Yud Nissan because it teaches us how that how that idea of having to check your animals for four days played out in reality in the Beis Hamikdash. And like I said it is a machlokes, it is a dispute whether or not you actually needed to, the Rambam I believe holds that you do not need to check these animals for four days, but the prevailing view of most of the meforshim is that you did have to check them. The mishna now turns its attention to other minimums and maximums related to... The second one in our Mishna is אין פוחתין משתי חצוצרות. There were no less than two trumpets that the Kohanim would use as part of their service. u'mosifin ad l'olam, but you can have as many as you want, although some suggest that there was a cap at 120 of them. אין פוחתין מתשעה כנורות. Again, talking about the musical instruments in the Beis HaMikdash, there were no less than nine harps that were used. u'mosifin ad l'olam, but again, having as many as they as you could. v'hatzil-tzal levad. However, when it came to the cymbals, you only had one cymbal that you used. Its noise was so distinct and so loud that it would disturb all the other instruments, so they had one set of cymbals as well. So again, you had at least two trumpets, at least nine harps, and one cymbal playing in the Beis HaMikdash when it was appropriate during the avoda. And with that, I wish you continuing hatzlacha.