Hello Chevra, and welcome back to our pre-Pesach Mishnayos learning series where we continue to learn Mishnayos related to the period of time between Purim and Pesach. We are continuing learning about Erev Pesach. Erev Pesach being the busy day, so we already saw how desperately people wanted to bring the Korban Pesach because we saw that the mukas shechin would remove his limbs in a tahordig way so that he would be able to bring the Korban Pesach. The ger would be megayer Erev Pesach. People were running last minute to buy their Korban Pesachs. And so now we switch our focus to what is happening in the Beis HaMikdash, the ceremony of the Korban Pesach. Now, we will not be learning every single Mishna related to the ceremony, for that starting in Perek Hey of Masechta Pesachim you can read the series of Prakim that talk about the ceremony of the Korban Pesach and get all the nuance and detail there, and I direct your attention to them. But we will begin with one very simple Mishna, the Perek Hey Mishna Aleph in Masechta Pesachim, because as we keep saying, there are lots of people coming to the Beis HaMikdash, it's going to be crazy busy with people bringing their Korban Pesach, and you need to make sure that the Korban Pesach is brought before nightfall. It has to be in the afternoon. Now, unlike every other Korban, normally the last Korban of the day is the Korban Tamid. There were two Korban Tamids every day, one in the morning that started the work in the Beis HaMikdash and one in the afternoon that closed out the avoda in the Beis HaMikdash. But when it came to Korban Pesach, the Korban Tamid would be brought first and then the Korban Pesach. So therefore, we needed to move the time of the Korban Tamid up during the day. So in order to understand our Mishna, let's break down a typical day in terms of what we call halachic hours. And for this purpose, we will assume that normally like this, the halacha day goes from sunrise or from dawn until sunset. Meaning to say that unlike the secular calendar, we have 24 hours in a day, each hour is 60 minutes. The halachic day is slightly different because we measure the time of when there is daylight and we divide it into 12, and we divide the time that there is darkness and divide it into 12. When it comes to daylight, so let's say during the equinox when there is equal amounts of daylight and night, day and night, so then there's 12 hours, so each hour is 60 minutes. But it can range to as low as New York City, it can be as short as 45 minutes an hour for halachic purposes and as long as 75 minutes in the summer when it gets to the longest days. But the idea is for our purposes, let's assume that the day starts at 6:00 AM and finishes at 6:00 PM. So there's a 12-hour day, each one is 60 minutes, and that will make our Mishna easier to understand. So let's see our Mishna, Perek Hey Mishna Aleph in Masechta Pesachim. So Tamid nishchat on a typical day, the afternoon Tamid was shechted bishmona u'mechtza at eight and a half hours into the day. So that would be what, 6:00 AM was the start, that would be 2:30 in the afternoon, ve'karev b'tesha u'mechtza, and an hour later it would be brought on the Mizbeach at nine and a half hours, at 3:30. However, b'arvei Psachim, on a typical Erev Pesach, nishchat b'sheva u'mechtza, you would shecht it an hour earlier at 1:30, ve'karev bishmona u'mechtza, you would bring it on the Mizbeach at 2:30 and then start the process of the Korban Pesach, בין בחול בין בשבת, and whether or not Erev Pesach was a weekday or whether it was Shabbos. Because it didn't make a difference, because on Shabbos you could shecht it but you weren't going to cook it. You would cook it that night. However, חל ערב פסח להיות בערב שבת, but if Erev Pesach, the day you need to bring the Korban Pesach, was not Shabbos but it was Friday, then you had an issue because you needed to get the Korban Pesach into the oven before Shabbos. Therefore, nishchat b'shesh u'mechtza, you would shecht at 12:30, ve'karev b'sheva u'mechtza, you would bring it on the Mizbeach, the Korban Tamid at 1:30, ve'hapesach acharayv, and then you'd bring the Korban Pesach starting right then earlier than normal in order that you can get it back into the ovens before Pesach began, Shabbos began. So that was the earliest that it would be brought, and you couldn't go earlier than six and a half hours because then it wouldn't be the afternoon and the Tamid had to be brought in the afternoon. And so yeah, and because even though you can shecht the Korban Pesach on Shabbos, you couldn't cook it on Shabbos, therefore on Erev Pesach you needed to get it into the oven. And with that, I wish you continuing hatzlacha.