{"id":10340,"date":"2014-05-10T00:08:40","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T21:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ph.yhb.org.il\/en\/?p=10340"},"modified":"2020-09-15T13:23:05","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T10:23:05","slug":"15-10-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ph.yhb.org.il\/en\/15-10-08\/","title":{"rendered":"08. The Procedure for Offering Incense on Yom Kippur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The procedure of this mitzva is as follows: The Kohen Gadol entered the <em>Kodesh Ha-kodashim<\/em> with a panful of glowing coals and a ladle of incense. In the <em>Kodesh Ha-kodashim<\/em>, he scooped out two handfuls of incense which he placed on the coals. The smoke rose up, mushroomed, spread out through the <em>Kodesh Ha-kodashim<\/em>, and ultimately concealed the <em>kaporet<\/em>, as we read, \u201cHe shall take a panful of glowing coals scooped from the altar before the Lord, and two handfuls of finely ground aromatic incense, and bring this beyond the <em>parokhet<\/em>. He shall put the incense on the fire before the Lord, so that the cloud from the incense screens the <em>kaporet<\/em> that is over [the Ark of] the Covenant, lest he die\u201d (Vayikra 16:12-13). This indicates that even the holiest member of Israel could not comprehend God as He truly is. The <em>Shekhina<\/em> appears only within smoke and fog, and through the fog, the divine idea is progressively revealed. Therefore, the Kohen Gadol first had to offer incense in the <em>Kodesh Ha-kodashim<\/em>, and only once the <em>Kodesh Ha-kodashim<\/em> filled with smoke could he fulfill the mitzva (<em>Yoma<\/em> 53a).<\/p>\n<p>Since the incense expressed the deep bond between God and the souls of Israel, the firepan of incense remained in the <em>Kodesh Ha-kodashim<\/em> until the day\u2019s <em>avoda<\/em> was completed. That entire time, its smoke continued to rise. Upon completion of the <em>avoda<\/em>, the Kohen Gadol entered the <em>Kodesh Ha-kodashim<\/em> on behalf of all of Israel, picked up the shovel, and departed.<\/p>\n<p>The Kohen Gadol offered two handfuls of incense, no more and no less (<em>ibid<\/em>. 48a), alluding to the idea that all his actions and intentions were devoted to <em>klal Yisrael<\/em>. The Sages tell us that scooping a handful of incense out of the ladle without spilling a single grain was among the hardest jobs in the Temple (<em>ibid<\/em>. 49b). This alludes to the idea that the Kohen Gadol must try to bind all the energies of Israel to the <em>Kodesh Ha-kodashim<\/em> without losing even a single spark.<\/p>\n<p>The daily incense was finely ground, but the incense offered by the Kohen Gadol in the <em>Kodesh Ha-kodashim<\/em> on Yom Kippur was pulverized further to make it superfine. Grinding enables the unification of all the individual particles, and the incense offered in the <em>Kodesh Ha-kodashim<\/em> had to express a deeper unity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The procedure of this mitzva is as follows: The Kohen Gadol entered the Kodesh Ha-kodashim with a panful of glowing coals and a ladle of incense. In the Kodesh Ha-kodashim, he scooped out two handfuls of incense which he placed on the coals. The smoke rose up, mushroomed, spread out through the Kodesh Ha-kodashim, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[193],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-15-10"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>08. 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