[Avodah] [Areivim] 40 Years Ago

[Simon Montagu]

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Zev Sero <zev at sero.name> wrote:

> She'elas tam: mimai that "magreifah" was a musical instrument?
> I had always assumed it was the tool used for terumas hadeshen, and
> the sound came from the Cohen dropping it on the mizbeach, or banging
> it against the mizbeach.

The description that sounds like a musical instrument is in Arachin
starting at the bottom of 10b. See the last Tosafot on 10b, d"h
magrefa, where he says that there were two magrefot, a tool and a
musical instrument.