Study Sukkah folio 56B with parallel Hebrew-English text, traditional commentary, and modern study tools. Free access to Babylonian Talmud online.
The Talmud asks: And these two extra loaves received by the incoming watch, what is their purpose? R' Yitzḥak says: They are as compensation for locking the doors of the Temple. The Talmud asks: Let the outgoing watch say to the incoming one: Remove your claim to the extra loaves this week and divi
Rav Yehuda said: And they divide the hides of the additional offerings between them. The Talmud raises an objection from a baraita: The outgoing watch performs the rite of the daily morning offering and the additional offerings, and the incoming watch performs the rite of the daily afternoon offerin
Rava said: But didn’t the tanna of the school of Shmuel, who speaks of division between the incoming and the outgoing watches, fail to teach division of the hides of the additional offerings mentioned by R' Yehuda, as the school of Shmuel taught: The outgoing watch performs the daily morning offerin
§ The Mishnah continues: Members of the incoming watch divide the showbread in the north section of the courtyard, and members of the outgoing watch in the south. A baraita states: Members of the incoming watch divide the showbread in the north, which was an area of greater sanctity in the Temple c
We learned in the Mishnah that Bilga always divides the showbread in the south, even when it is the incoming watch. The Talmud elaborates: A baraita states: There was an incident involving Miriam, the daughter of a member of the Bilga watch, who apostatized and went and married a soldier [sardeyot]