Question: If he slaughtered and then he died, may another (the Kohen who replaces him) enter with its blood?

Answer #1 (Reish Lakish): [The Kohen Gadol enters] "b'Far'', but not with blood. (The replacement must slaughter his own bull.)

Answer #2 (R. Chaninah and R. Yonason): [He enters] even with blood.

Support #1 (R. Chaninah citing R. Ba citing R. Yochanan): [He enters] even with blood. (This is a later R. Chaninah. The one cited above lived in the days of Rebbi.)

Support #2: R. Yehoshua ben Levi's words show that [he enters] even with blood.

Question (R. Yehoshua ben Levi): If he took a double handful [of Ketores] and died, may [his replacement] enter with [the first's] double handful?

Inference: Why does he ask? [He asks about] a double handful, for it says "u'Melo Chafnav'' (his double handful). However, here (regarding blood) it does not say "b'Damo''. It is obvious to him [that he may enter] even with blood.

(Mishnah): Every day, he scoops [coals] with a silver [Machtah] and pours into one of gold. Today (Yom Kipur), he scoops with a gold [Machtah] and with it he enters [the Kodesh ha'Kodoshim].

Every day, he scoops with [a Machtah that holds] four Kavim and pours into one of three Kavim. Today, he scoops with one of three Kavim, and with it he enters [the Heichal].

R. Yosi says, every day, he scoops with one of a Se'ah (six Kavim) and pours into one of three Kavim. Today, he scoops with one of three Kavim, and with it he enters.

Every day it was heavy, and today it was light. Every day its handle was short, and today its handle was long. Every day its gold was yellow, and today it was red. R. Menachem says so.

(Gemara): [Our first Tana] is like a Mishnah there [in Tamid] teaches, that about a Kav of coals spilled [when he poured from the silver Machtah into the gold Machtah]. He swept them into the Amah (a stream running through the Mikdash), and on Shabbos (one may not do so, for this extinguishes them) he inverted a pot over them.

Every day it was heavy, and today it was light, so it will not weary [the Kohen Gadol]. Every day its handle was short, and today its handle was long, so it will not weary him;

Every day [its handle] was only a minimal Amah, and today it was an Amah and a half, so his arm may help (his hand need not bear all the weight by itself).

Every day [its handle] did not have a case. Today it had a case, lest he get scalded (the coals stay in the Machtah longer than on other days).

Question: Is it not a Chatzitzah?

Answer (R. Yosi bei R. Bun): He attaches it with a nail (so it is considered part of the Machtah).

There are seven kinds of gold - good gold, pure gold, Sagur gold, Mufaz gold, refined gold, Shachut gold, and Parvim gold.

Good gold is like it connotes - "v'Zahav ha'Aretz ha'Hi Tov.'' R. Yitzchak said, it is good to have it in the house, and good to accompany him on the road (he can spend it, and it is lighter than other currencies worth the same - PNEI MOSHE).

Pure gold - one puts it in the fire [to refine it], and nothing is lacking (no impurities are burned). A case occurred with a Menorah in the Mikdash that was a gold Dinar more than the one that Moshe made in the Midbar. They entered it in the furnace 80 times, and nothing was lacking (it did not decrease at all).

Question: Is this so? (We see that when one puts gold in the fire, it decreases!)

Answer: Until it is fully refined, it decreases much. Once it is fully refined, it does not decrease at all.

Sagur gold embarrasses all other kinds of gold there. (When they sell Sagur gold, they are Soger (close) the stores selling other gold.)

Contradiction (R. Shmuel bar Rav Yitzchak): It says "v'Shiv'as Alafim Kikar Kesef Mezukak Latu'ach Kiros ha'Bayis'', and it says "v'Es Kol ha'Bayis Tzipah Zahav'', and you say so (that it was covered with silver)?!

Resolution: Rather, [it was covered with Sagur gold;] it is called Kesef, for it is Machsif (embarrasses) all other kinds of gold there.

Opinion #1 (R. Patruki, brother of R. Drusa, citing R. Ba bar Binah): Mufaz gold resembles fire that one creates through sulfur. (ALEI TAMAR suggests that this is like Pozez, i.e. different appearances jump rapidly.)

Opinion #2 (R. Avin): It is called gold me'Ufaz due to its place (Ufaz).

Opinion #1: Refined gold - they cut it into pieces the size of olives and smear it with dough, and feed it to ostriches, and they filter it (in their innards, and they excrete it without impurities).

Opinion #2: They bury it in manure for seven years.

Shachut gold - it is [soft, and can be] drawn (stretched) like wax.

Adriyainus [Kaiser] had the weight of an egg of it. Dukaltinus (Melech Aram) had the weight of a Gurdinan Dinar of it.

Opinion #1 (Reish Lakish): Parvim gold is red, similar to the blood of a Par (bull).

Opinion #2: Parvim gold is gold that makes Peros, like a Mishnah (Midos 3:4) says "a gold vine stood at the opening of the Heichal'' (and people used to volunteer leaves, grapes or clusters and hang them on it. The Mishnah discusses Bayis Sheni. SHIREI KORBAN - also in Bayis Sheni they gave fruits. Others explain that they gave Peros only in Bayis Rishon; in Bayis Sheni there was a mere commemoration of what was in Bayis Rishon - OHR HA'YASHAR Tamid 4:8).

(R. Acha bar Yitzchak): When Shlomo built the Beis ha'Mikdash, he depicted all kinds of trees in it, and when these [trees] outside gave Peros, these inside gave Peros - "Paro'ach Tifrach v'Sagel Af Gilas v'Ranen...''

Question: When did they dry (cease giving Peros)?

Answer (R. Yitzchak citing Chinena bar Yitzchak): When Menasheh set up an idol in the Heichal, they dried - "u'Ferach Levanon Umlal.''