Ash - Ashes

cleaned off altar, originally whichever kohen came first, after kohen pushed and injured another, then done by lottery

fire on altar precedes setting up new wood, separating ash precedes setting up new wood, what if done in the wrong order?

kohanim race up ramp to merit remove ashes, if there is a tie in the race up the ramp, it is chosen by lottery, process of how the lottery is conducted

kohen separates and removes ashes, not from burnt wood, fully burnt, not from limbs of offerings that are partially burnt

kohen who first reaches the four amos at the top of the ramp does the removal of ashes

kometz or burning of sacrificial parts burnt on the coals and ashes of the previous day

non kohen or kohen with a blemish who removed the ashes, liable? sources

one kohen killed another while racing up the ramp, kohanim more concerned about impurity than murder, ethics

separated ash with his left hand, kometz done with the left hand, receiving of blood with the left hand

separated half of the required amount of ash at a time, half of a kometz for the minchah offering at a time

take ash, leave over some, ash must be at least a volume size of an olive

taken from the altar but blew away prior to being placed on the floor, kometz of the minchah offering that blew away prior to being burnt