The Order of the Pesach SacrificialService

After the Minchah Service it is customary to recite theorder of the Pesach Sacrificial Semice as a substitute for

the actual sacrifice which we are unableto perform:

Master of the universe, You have commanded us to offer the PesachSacrifice in its appointed time, on the fourteenth day of the firstmonth, (hat the Kohanim perform their service, that the Levites be ontheir dais, and that the Israelites occupy their positions reciting theHallel. But, now, because of our iniquities, our Holy Temple isdestroyed and the Pesach Sacrifice is in abeyance; and we have noKohen at his service, no Levite on his dais, and no Israelite standingin his position. You, however, have said: ".. .and we shall render forbullocks the offering of our lips" (Hoshea 14:3). Therefore, may it beYour will, Hashem, our God and God of our fathers, that theutterance of our lips be regarded before you as if we had offered thePaschal lamb in its appointed time and stood in our positions, andthe Levites had spoken in song and praise to Hashem. And may Youestablish Your Holy Temple on its site, and then we shall ascend andoffer the Pesach Sacrifice before You in its appointed time, as Youhave commanded us in Your Torah, by the hand of Moshe Yourservant, as it says:

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After the Minchah Semice it is customary to recite theorder of the Pesach Sacrificial Service as a substitute for

the actual sacrifice which we are unableto perform:

noon pip mpn1? unns nnn .u'jiy *?M> innnvn1?! pwin iznn1? nv -

nnyi .V^nn-nN nwip tnnym 'wnw mom? la1? I'to noon imp 'jum Mnpnn n>i Tinnnni .rrnyna *?Nniy> «*3i usm n1? N1?! imnyiirn'jN mn' -pia^n pin >n> p1? .irno\ nna

impn I'J'KD T301? iwn ii^ninoiyT\yi n'l^n •nm nnyrrty innyi nyini noon

ian nnniIWD iiyinn

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"And Hashem spoke unto Moshe and unto Aharon in i l i r I ... i iEgypt, saying: 'This renewal of the moon shall be unio \nbeginning of new moons; it shall be the first month of the yr.u i . >Speak unto the whole of the congregation of Yisrael sayini;: "< in i i . .tenth day of this month they shall take unto them every man .1 I m i l .according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for each household A m i > lthe household be too small fora lamb, then shall he and his n< i i ; l i l . . .1who is near to his house take one according to the counting i i | > . . Isouls; according to every man's eating you shall make your count \«\e lamb. Your lamb shall be complete, without blemish, a niali < t l

the first year; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. And Hshall be to you for a safekeeping unt i l the fourteenth day of the s.uuimonth; then the whole assembly of the congregation of Yisrael sh. i l lslaughter it between the two evenings. And they shall lake of theblood and put it on the two door posts and on the lintel, upon ilirhouses wherein they shall eat it. And they shall eat the flesh, t h a inight, roasted with fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs shallthey eat it. Eat not of it half-cooked nor cooked in water as usual, in noother way but roasted with fire; its head with its legs and with itsinnards. And you shall let nothing remain of it until morning; andthat which does remain of it when morning comes you shall burnwith fire. And thus shall you eat it; with your loins girded, your shoeson your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste— it is a Pesach directed to Hashem'"" (Shemos 12:1-11).

Thus was the service of the Pesach Sacrifice in the House of our God onthe fourteenth of Nissan:

The Pesach Sacrifice is only slaughtered after the Daily AfternoonSacrifice. On the day before Pesach, whether this was a weekday or a Shabbos,the Daily Sacrifice is slaughtered half an hour after the seventh hour and itsoffering is completed at half an hour after the eighth hour. If the day beforePesach falls on a Friday, however, the Daily Sacrifice is slaughtered half anhour after the sixth hour, its offering is completed one hour later, and thePesach Sacrifice lakes place immediately afterwards.

Every adult Jew, male or female, who isritually pure, circumcised (just asan uncircumcised Jew may not offer or eat a Paschal lamb, so too, if his minorsons or adult or minor slaves have not undergone circumcision, or if his

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nnsn yina pntrbto H^D-'JK mrv'̂ in1? DD1? wn pwm n'\yrn \»m no1? mn \>nnn

on1? inp'i nrn mn1? nwya inn1? 'ww* my1?:)-1™ rmnvnn n>in uyn>-DNi iivi1? nu> nan-iva1? n\">& \»»N n\yo3 noDni WI-'JN anpn iiaw Nin

n>rv nwp nat trnn rw •.rrorr'pynv n\»y nyn« iv nnn^n1? DD1? n'm :inpn nnyinp1?! :n»nyn ra ^Kiw»-mv ''np ft inN wnw ntn

y <ripM)nn-l?yi nnrnn >n\»^ntn n1?'1?! n\yin-n^ I^HI :tini

KJ i^nn I^DNP-'PN tirtow nmn-'?v-ry lann iTinn-K^i -.mp^yi vynrby IWNT WH-^JTDHinn to*n nDDi :ioi^n WKI ipriy i^nn nnam npa

nara na'ppni na^na nD'byi nn>n na»3nnnua prana

n\»v nva irnbn rim noa pip muy nn'n p pat

in 'pini in noa any .n»anyn-in ^w i»nn inn N^N inwa"y ^n DNI ,nsnm n3in\!)3 npi nsnm yiwa onwi rnnn rvn

am ,nsnm yawn npi nsnm \»\ya inw runw vn

nmnonivn n^n

,n\2)NTi in«i wnn 7nsnoon nwy'jn

ms

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bondwomen have not undergone ritual immersion, he m.iv .11the Paschal lamb), and able to reach Yerushalavim i islaughtering is obliged to offer a Paschal lamb.

The Pesach Sacrifice is to consist of a male, unblemished sin i p m ,its first year. No Laying on of Hands is required. It may Ix I . . . .anywhere in the Temple court, after the completion ol t i n Mi .Sacrifice and the Setting in Order of the Lamps. It may not be s l .mi - . l n . .blood poured, or its fats burned together with the possession ol . I.(Even if there isanamountofchametzassmallasanoliveinlhe|Miss<any member of the group at the time any of the rituals involved in i l i < iOffering are |jerfoimed, the guilty |>erson incurs the |>enaliy of l;ish< •, I Insacrifice nevertheless remains valid.)

Anyone (even a non-Kohen) may perform the slaughtering. The H»lthe head of the column receives the blood and hands it totheKohen m «i i..him and that Kohen to the one next lo him. The Kohen nearest to t i n - i l l • •pours the blood in a single action against the base and returns the <-m|.i.basin to the Kohen next to him. First he receives the full basin, and thru Inreturns the empty one. In any line there are gold or silver basins but IM-M iboth. The bottoms of the basins are rounded to prevent their being set downand the blood from congealing.

The carcass is then suspended from hooks (or else from thin sticks held Inthe owner on his shoulder and that of his neighbor), and it is skinned i n < mi-piece. (OnShabbos, it is skinned down to the chest in one piece and thereal inin strips.) Its belly is then split open and the pans to be sacrificed extractedthat is, the fat on the innards, the diaphragm of the liver, the two kidneys, anilthe fat on them, and, in jhe case of a sheep, the fat tail is severed at thebackbone. These parts are placed in utensils of service and salted. The Kohenburns the fats of each sacrifice separately on the pyre. On weekdays they burnduring the day, but not at night, for by then it is yom tov. If the day beforePesach falls on Shabbos, however, the members will be burnt all night long.The innards are removed and cleansed of all dung (so that later the lamb maybe roasted with them).

Slaughtering, pouring the blood, cleansing the innards and burning thefats override Shabbos. The other processes do not.

Three groups, one at a time, slaughter the Paschal lamb, no groupconsisting of less than thirty persons. The first group enter. When the Templecourt is filled, it is locked. While the sacrifices are being slaughtered andoffered up, the Kohanim blow the shofar, the flute is played before the altar,and the Levites read the Hallel. If .they finish the Hallel before all has beenoffered, it is repeated; if the Hallel is read a second time and the sacrifices are

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io ̂ (naDvn vninnn nbnui tmup pai D'Vm i'a naya'»n noon nv>>m> ny\>n

.ro'rro jiyo i:w ,na«na n>nn nat nnyn in IN D'lyaan in wanI'm .nmn nav>n -mm anyn ran mny im inn mtya nipn taa IOTWIn'o rvn VTON) ynnn "?y abnn p-i>upn x^i Din TPTIT NVi noon purwKin ,noa pnp 'TO nvtnynn nrm nyi .miinn >3in ins ^\ inium ynn

oni npi1?

rani ,1-an^ inui mwn \ynia\ pon im ̂ ipi (it I^'OH) onwn on\npn ''PDH nnm /turn I»D nnn npnt ipnn namn ^JSN anpn pa .ni"W nnmv D'jnDn vm -ipnn nn Ttnn l'r\m N^nn 'japn ,vn N1?! ,D»aniyn vn N^T ,3nr D^ID IN IDD n'?'D\!> D'D'ta nnnm ,nnw

.mn unp'i omn' H'JW .

'jyi IQHD 'jy n'an ,D>PT mVpna IK),Cnaa non^i niym ,nrnn i

noon TN i'!?in D"nN

.nsyn nniy1?! - nninDn rnn n'n DN - n'^sm ,in^y\,DVI bina .m1? nan nit 'JD n^n ,rmynn ^y inon pnjpni in'jim rn\.nb'^n 'JD I'D'jim in'vjpn na\»a a"y bn DN 'jax ,aio-nv Kin

D"p: iTi'TO no) i»non nnn von\ TV inw nnnm imp.(nny

,na\»n nn pnn va'jn nvjpm vanp nn»m im npnn

nmna nD I>KI ,unu>5 noon mna'jnai 1'anpni pwiw pio iiyai ,nnix r'jyi: mtyn

n« lanp'io mip nnj DN .'j^nn n« I'Niip n'n'jni natnn 'jo1? nan

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nol yel completed, (hey rerile i i a (hird lime. For every i r .nhicrnah . irkiah is sounded. When (he firsl group are f in i shed , i l nareo|>ened, (he second group finer, and the doors are locked a j - . m ,second group are finished, they depart and (he (hird enin I I"service is (he same for all three groups.

After all have lefl , the court is washed of refuse from (he I > ] I M M ! .Shahhos. How is th is done? A channel of water passes through t i n • • •<wash the floor, the opening through which the water flows oui r. . imaking the water overflow the sides, rise, and collect all the blo<xl .mi l i > In iin the court. Then the stopper is opened, and the water wi th all u\lflows out, leaving the floor clean. This lends digni ty to the conn

Each person departs wi th his Paschal lamb (and its hide) and IU. IM* 11How is i t roasted? A spit of pomegranate wood is brought and insei H • I '(he animal's mouth to i ts buttocks. Then the animal is suspended in .m— the fire burning underneath — wi th ils legs and innards hangini- • ! •outside the carcass. The Paschal lamb is not gouged like other nir.u

The Paschal lamb is not taken home on Shabbos. Instead the f i r s l v.""'|ileave w i t h (heir Paschal lambs and remain on (heTemple Mount. The M Idepart wi th theirs and stay wi th in the ramparl. The third remain when- i l u >are. When it becomes dark, Ihey all go and roast iheir lambs.

When ihe Pesach Sacrifice is offered, a Peace Offering is offered with i i mithe fourteenth day of the monih, eilher from (he bullocks or (he sheep, hum-or small, male or female. This is called I he "Chagigah of the Fourteen! h." ( ( Iit. the Torah slates: "And you shall bring (he Pesach as an offering of a inr.ilto Hashem. your God; from the flock and the herd..." (Devarim 16:1?)Scripture did not make ihis mandatory, but optional. Nevertheless, the Sage1,made the Chagigah obligatory to ensure thai the Pesach Sacrifice be eatenwhen one is no longer very hungry.

When is the Chagigah brought together wi th the Pesach Sacrifice? Theyare offered together only in a stale of r i tual purity on weekdays when thePaschal lamb is too small foral l those eating. Ii may beeaienfor twodaysandone night. It is governed by the same regulations as all Peace Offerings: iirequires Laying on of Hands. Drink Offerings, two Applicalions of Bloodwhich add up to four, and the Pouringof the Remainder of the Blood againstthe base of the altar.

This is the order of the Pesach Sacrifice and its accompanying PeaceOffering in the House of our God, may il be rebuilt speedily, in our days.Amen. To salvation strides that nation with whom it is so. To salvation thatnation whose God is Hashem.

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nn* na mm .iypni lynni ivpn rwn? *>•*> ,nfro iw OK ,,mtyn miiTr Tw ,nwna TWJM nnwn no row ,mtyn rnmo inpn1?

IVJOT nwn p nnwin nwna TOW HNS' ,miM

,mn mta>n mtvn r*rni fna ws»TH nn>n nx>s> tnpnrnmo nosnn nnn* rsvwaw mtva maw nivn

m to DH^N rsapm roan r^v n>nrw w ,n»ni-n to ITV n^nnnny onn vK»n nn'nun rnmo D"nN .mtvaw

int ,npiin

ny

m nimn -pn> irtini .ma^pi n>a iy vo imn umn ,pmwwa ntjon n« ppin iw ,1̂ nsin vvnr'iai vyia n^im ,

inmoaa TNSV n:n\!»on na N^N .nno1? noon ™ ra^n l'K nawan'MJ^wm ,*na ]»awn in»npa ny r«»' n'wn ^'amna pawn

PN i^si INS' ,na>»n .mmv nmpna

INin ,wri)V nit nw-nyns nva my innpn noon nsm>jn nsnp: N'ni ,mapi IN nnat ,nwp IN D'^

nyip N1?! ,ipai INS T^« "̂ noa nn3n n"lin:i nnN3 nt

nn'\ na ,nnaio-nnn naina N'n mprrtao .la'ja mun N^N ruin aman.yn\»n ^y ^SNI noon

,mnoa >na NI wnw inta ,n>''nat mm toa mm .in*

mnna n»aa invw nwm noa pnp muy mo int.\ nyn nw i1? nD3\ nyn

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Our God and God of our fathers, compassionate K m . i ,compassion upon us, cause us to find You a r I m.ibeneficent Being. Return to us in the fullness <>lcompassion, for the sake of the fathers whodidYom w i l l iYour House as at the beginning and establish Your S.IIK m.iiyupon its site. And let us behold its rebuilding and gladden nOtvits restoration, return Your Presence within it, and tcsion- ilirPriests to their service, and the Levites to their son^s .milpraises. Lead Yisrael back to their dwell ing places, and ihnr wrshall ascend and appear and cast ourselves down before Y < m uthe three seasons of our pilgrimage, and we shall eat there Ithe sacrifices and from the Pesach Offerings whose blood u i l lbe sprinkled on the sides of Your altar for gracious accepiam <May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heai i I »pleasing before Your countenance, o' Hashem, my Rock amimy Redeemer.

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nm•pm r»y\ niiN *?^n n^nnn p

m inon 'jy i>ynpn nu pioi n'jnnia ^n'l nn»

nbyi n\yi ami1? *7Kn\»' IMJ mn:m»ri

n> .pin1? "pro TP *?y nm yvnirv '3D1? u1? pnni

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