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Who swept the floor in the Beis HaMikdash?
Who said the floors were ever dirty or needed to be swept?
I think I remember from Midos or Meilah that there was a water source that ran in a channel through the Mikdash. They plugged the outlet, flooding the floor, and then unplugged to flush out the ‘wash water’.
Probably the open orthodox female kohanim.
They used to fight over who would do the terumas hadeshen, which pretty much boiled down to taking out the garbage.
Yes, in my own mikdash me’at we also fight over who takes out the garbage…
PBA: are you OTD or just on a D tour?
Who said the floors were ever dirty or needed to be swept?
Why would you say it never got dirty? Of course it did.
People walked on it all day. Blood and other liquids certainly got spilled on it numerous times.
The Gemara describes how people used to be lowered into the Kodesh HaKadoshim in partitions to clean it. If the Kodesh HaKadoshim didn’t keep itself clean, then certainly the floor of the chatzar didn’t.
Lastly, the Mishna in Avos lists 10 miracles that happened in the Bais HaMikdash. Keeping itself clean is not one of them.
As to who actually did it — my guess (and that’s all it is) is that the levi’im or hired help cleaned the chatzar and the kohanim of the active mishmar cleaned the heichal (or, perhaps, they cleaned both).
The Wolf
PBA: They had female Kohanim at many times in the Beis Hamikdash. They weren’t OO, They were OAZ.
My bracha for Torah613 is that she be given the honor of being the cleaning lady in the Ezras Noshim of the Beis HaMikdash.
a kohain did it each day
Don’t know. All I know was that Yerushalim was swept every day.
Wolfish: There was great competition for even the tiniest job in the Bais HaMikdash.
And so? That supports my contention that it was possibly done by a Kohein from the active mishmar.
Or did I miss something?
The Wolf
Twisted: you were probably thinking of the Mishna in Pesachim daf 64a which discusses this. Here is how Rashi(and how Twisted explained it) explains the process:
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PBA: are you OTD or just on a D tour?
He’s just not serious (except when he’s talking about halocho).
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