Tamid

("Continuous Offering"). Ninth tractate of Order Kodashim in the Mishnah. Its seven chapters discuss the daily burnt-offering in the Temple brought by the priests every morning and afternoon (cf. Ex. 29:38-42, 30:7, 8; Num. 28:3-8). Rather than merely listing the laws regarding the daily offering, the Mishnah describes the actual performance of the ritual. Included is a description of the removal of the ashes from the altar, the arrangement of the firewood, the drawing of lots among the priests for duties, the procedure for slaughtering the lamb and bringing it to the altar, the daily morning prayer, the music that accompanied the sacrifices, the cleaning of the candelabrum, and the offering of Incense on the inner altar. The subject matter is amplified in the Babylonian Talmud.

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