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Question
What does it mean by: "Between the evenings" - โBein Haโarbayimโ?
Answer
In the Torah โBein Haโarbayimโ 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 โbetween the eveningsโ, or โbetween 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 โthe afternoonโ.
Another phrase โbein haโshemoshotโ refers to the time period after sundown which is not clearly day or night because of a doubt concerning the halachic definition of sundown.






