תלמוד על יומא 5:1

There, we have stated: “They removed the cup and the censer for him”⁷⁰Mishnah Yoma.5:1. The reference really is to the end of that Mishnah: “The High Priest takes the censer in his right hand and the cup in the left hand.” In general there is a rule that all priestly service in the Temple has to be performed with the right hand only. The left hand has to be used here to make it possible for the High Priest to enter the Holiest of Holies only once. On that it is noted (Yoma5:2, 42b l. 52) that if he went twice, using only his right hand, the service is valid. Nevertheless, it is sinful to enter the Temple building more often than necessary. About this the paragraph here is then copied in Yoma.. About which of them does he become liable? About the first or the last? The colleagues say, about the last. Rebbi Yose told them, one says to him, enter, and you say about the last? But we must hold about the first⁷¹Since the first entry is necessary in any case, the High Priest cannot be faulted for the first entry even if he only carries the censer..

Rebbi Joḥanan said, so he should not err⁹⁸This refers to the way of counting as explained in Mishnah 4. Why does he have to count 1+n? Babli 55a.. Rebbi Zeˋira said, that he should finish his sprinkling with “seven”⁹⁹Since in all he has to sprinkle 8 times, it is preferable to end with “7” which is an odd number and means “luck”.. But was it not stated¹⁰⁰The prefix ק is Babylonian Aramaic. The version in which the second number precedes the first is R. Jehudah’s in Tosephta 2:14, R. Meïr’s in the Babli 55a., “seven and one”? Rebbi Abun said, it is written¹⁰¹Lev. 16:14; cf. Note 84., before the cover .. seven. Why does the verse say, he shall sprinkle? That the first sprinkling should be counted with them¹⁰²Sprinkling is mentioned separately for the blood on the cover of the Ark and the seven times in front of the Ark. Therefore they have to be mentioned separately in counting. Babli 55a..