The Yom Kippur fire pan, set down on the rock between the two poles, at the foot of the Ark. On that day it is of gold rather than silver, holds three kabin, is lighter than the everyday one, and its handle is long where the everyday one is short, so that the forearm carries its weight. The High Priest scooped the coals from the outer altar, carried the pan here in his right hand, set it down between the poles, then poured the incense onto the coals: the smoke fills the house. In the tour, the room has no light but the Ark's, and these coals are its hot spot.
Dimensions
- three kabin, a light pan, a long handle
- bowl 0.52 to 0.60 ama across, 0.16 high
- round handle of 1.1 ama, toward the east
Sources
Project decisionThe bowl, its handle and their measures are a CHOICE; its place between the poles, at the foot of the Ark, is Yoma 5:1. Tour's choice: the room's light comes from the Ark (Jerusalem Talmud Yoma 5:3: he went in and out by the Ark's light), and the coals are only its hot spot. The High Priest carries it in his right hand despite the rule that would have it in the left: lighter than the everyday pan (Yoma 4:4), it is still too heavy and too hot for the left hand all the way to the Ark (Rambam, Avodat Yom HaKippurim 4:1).