And this Mishnah will shift the theme a little bit. We’ve been talking about Mishnayot that discuss laws involving a minimum and then a maximum. Here, we’ll discuss a lower limit but no upper limit for the following laws. The first law we’ll talk about is the Korban Tamid, which was offered in the Beit HaMikdash: one lamb in the morning and one lamb in the afternoon. Like other Korbanot (offerings), it cannot have any blemish. They would need to check these lambs four days before they were offered on the Mizbeach (altar), similar to the Korban Pesach. So they were checked in advance and put into a special room, a special chamber in the Beit HaMikdash, where they were kept until they were ready to be used.
In this Mishnah, we’ll talk about the minimum number of lambs one has to keep in that chamber at all times. The Mishnah says, “We don’t keep less than six inspected lambs in the chamber in the Beit HaMikdash”—nothing less than that at once. Even after the two lambs needed for that day are removed, you have six there that have to remain. And we’re going to add two more after that. So there are a total of eight inspected lambs there at all times. The minimum is six, but we take out two for the day and then put two more in. That’s the minimum. It started off with eight when the Beit HaMikdash was originally consecrated. Therefore, we always take two out and put two more in that were checked, and we leave them there until needed. Those lambs are inspected four days before they’re offered.
So what the Mishnah is saying here is just a—it’s not saying this is specific to this case. It’s just trying to show you how the four days play out. If you inspected a lamb on a Friday, and the next day was Shabbat, and two days after that was Rosh Hashanah—so Rosh Hashanah is Sunday—then comes Monday, and you want to offer the lambs as the Korban Tamid on a Tuesday, which is four days later, the fourth day, that would be permissible. u'mosifin ad le'olam. But in addition to the six that we have there at all times, you could add as many lambs to that number as you’d like. There’s no reason to have only six. You could add a hundred if you’d like to.
Ve'ein pochatin mishtei chatzotzrot. We’ll now mention the instruments in the Beit HaMikdash. As we mentioned in Mishnah Gimel, when the trumpets were blown in the Beit HaMikdash, we don’t blow less than two trumpets together. U'mosifin ad le'olam. But you’re allowed to add as many trumpets as you’d like. There’s no limit. The Gemara does set the limit at 120. It talks about the dedication of the first Beit HaMikdash, when there were 120 kohanim (priests) blowing the trumpets. Even though we’re saying here “any number,” it’s not meant literally. It’s just meant to show that you normally have two. You could have as many as you’d like, but a reasonable amount of 120 is the limit. They’re not even trying to hint at that, because it’s just such a large number. But anything more than that would produce an unpleasant sound.
So, when you use harps in the Beit HaMikdash, we don’t use less than nine. U'mosifin ad le'olam. But you’re allowed to use any number you’d like. Above that, you could continue to add to that number. Veha-tziltzal levad: the cymbal that’s used—you could use only one set of cymbals. This is based on the Pasuk (verse) that talks about Asaf, who was a Levi (Levite) and played the cymbals, which shows that there was only one set. You...