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The tenth perek of Massekhet Zevaḥim, which begins on today’s daf is called Kol HaTadir – “Whatever is more frequent.” The focus of this perek is the order in which the sacrifices must be brought in the Temple.
In any organization with operations as complex as those in the Temple there is a need to set a schedule and clear and consistent priorities. In the Temple there are many situations where the requirements of communal sacrifices are such that different korbanot must be brought, e.g. when Rosh HaShana falls out on Shabbat and there are three separate “sacrifices of the day.”
The first Mishna opens with the general statement that kol ha-tadir meḥaveiro kodem et ḥaveiro – whatever is more frequent than another has precedence over the other. That is to say that the more frequently a sacrifice is brought the greater its precedence in the order of korbanot.
We explore this operations logistic and refer to Halbertal’s appropriation of the korban metaphor in his political theology.