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What does it mean by: "Between the evenings" - โ€™Bein Haโ€™arbayimโ€™?
Answer
In the Torah โ€œBein Haโ€™arbayimโ€ is used for the time of the second daily Tamid offering (the first is in the morning), the time of the slaughter of the Pesach sacrifice, and other functions in the Temple. Commonly it is translated as โ€œbetween the eveningsโ€, or โ€œbetween the settingsโ€, when the first setting of the Sun is the beginning of its descent after noon, and the second is sundown. Hence, the phrase means โ€œthe afternoonโ€. Another phrase โ€œbein haโ€™shemoshotโ€ refers to the time period after sundown which is not clearly day or night because of a doubt concerning the halachic definition of sundown.
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