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This is an old thread, but I was wondering if anyone had anymore insight on this.
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Was the Mercy Seat ever cleaned?
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Heard a story of the great extension device with attached cleaning scrub brushes and cloths used to clean that part by the regular priests.. After Yom Kippur, the priests would clean the Most Holy with this extension device so that they didn't enter into that part of the temple. ...
but unable to confirm.
but unable to confirm.
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Actually, the blood was sprinkled on the front of the Atonement Cover (Mercy Seat) only with the High Priest's finger, and only once each for the bull's blood and the sin goat's blood.
That would amount to only a few drops each year, which would decay and fall off.
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they sacrificed day and night pouring all of the animals blood on the floor, idk how you visualize it... but yeah.
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Too bad you couldn't find the source for this.
But even if the amount of blood was minimal, there still would be other reasons to clean the Mercy Seat. One thing that comes to mind is dust. Surely without regular cleaning just the dust alone would pile up.
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If by Temple, you mean courtyard, yes the blood of the sin sacrifice was poured out at the base of the altar, not all over the courtyard.
They did not sacrifice 24 hours a day, the fire burned on the altar 24 hours a day.
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So, just adding this piece of information, we read somewhere in the bible someone touched the tabernacle and died instantly. The Talmud described an miraculious event during Yom Kippir, day of atonement that a red scarlet would turn white, this signifies that sins has been forgiven, but it ended when Jesus died at 30AD, second temple was destroyed at 70AD. But at second temple there was not ark of the convenant, it got lost during destruction of first Temple. So maybe supernaturally the blood on the Mercy seat would kinda evaporate.
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It was the Ark of the covenant he touched, not the tabernacle (Tent of Meeting) which housed the Ark (2 Sa 6:1-7).
And according to God's command, only the Levites could touch the holy things, which Uzzah was not.
The Talmud is not Scripture.
The Ark was the Mercy Seat. If it were lost (and it was), there would be no blood sprinkled thereon to evaporate.
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Regarding Beit HaMikdash, the whole place was covered with aqueducts and water channels from the surrounding rivers/lakes. These would lead the blood (and other remains) outside.
For example, the Mishna in Yoma 5, 6 talks about the blood flowing away and outside into the Kidron river, and even sold to farmers as fertilizer.
Similarly, the Malbim on Vayikra 16, 14 explains the passuk that says "והזה באצבעו על-פני הכפרת", in which it may seem that sprinkling is actually on the כפרת. Mainly:
For example, the Mishna in Yoma 5, 6 talks about the blood flowing away and outside into the Kidron river, and even sold to farmers as fertilizer.
Similarly, the Malbim on Vayikra 16, 14 explains the passuk that says "והזה באצבעו על-פני הכפרת", in which it may seem that sprinkling is actually on the כפרת. Mainly:
There's also a book by Menasheh Harel, with a whole section discussing "המים לטהרה, להיגיינה ולפולחן בבית המקדש בירושלים" (the water for purification, hygiene and worship in Beit HaMikdash in Jerusalem), in which he discusses this as well.
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