Rebbe,
While we're on the subject, the Gemara said that the kohanim were standing on a ledge or raised area so the blood would not have gotten on their clothing. The bigdei kehuna may not become soiled during the avoda. I don't understand the logistics. There were hundreds of bowls containing blood being passed fom hand to hand until the person nearest the mizbeach emptied them. There could have been a line of who knows how many kohanim doing this passing and then passing the empties back. All of this was done with as much speed as possible considering how many korbanos there were. How could blood not have splashed and not gotten onto their clothing?
B'kavod,
Sam Kosofsky
This is probably one of the reasons that the Kohanim practiced these manuevers beforehand. Additionally, they probably did not fill the Keilim to the top with blood, making them less likely to spill. Even so, they obviously did not pass these containers at recklessly high speeds, but as quickly as possible without the chance that they would be spilled.
Kol Tuv,
Yaakov Montrose
Rebbe,
While we're on the subject, the Gemara said that the kohanim were standing on a ledge or raised area so the blood would not have gotten on their clothing. The bigdei kehuna may not become soiled during the avoda. I don't understand the logistics. There were hundreds of bowls containing blood being passed fom hand to hand until the person nearest the mizbeach emptied them. There could have been a line of who knows how many kohanim doing this passing and then passing the empties back. All of this was done with as much speed as possible considering how many korbanos there were. How could blood not have splashed and not gotten onto their clothing?
B'kavod,
Sam Kosofsky
Dear Sam
Thanks for the point you raise.
The Chazon Ish is quoted to have said that if Chas V'shalom for some reason we could not do Shchitah for a period of fifty years, it would be impossible to restore it again, since the tradition passed down by practical application would have been severed. How much more so, when we try to reconstruct something which hasn't been done for almost two millennia, such as our case.
In Eretz Yisreol there are various institutions which are working on the practical application of Korbanos. Even a simple Shechitah can be complicated in the case of Korbanos. The logistics of the Korban Pesach operation was probably the most complicated. My guess is that the Kohanim stood in rows with outstretched hands and the blood was far away from them. But as I said, until there is some attempt to run such an operation, we can never be certain.
Wishing you a Chag kosher V'sameach.
Y. Landy