Tamid Photo Essay in Lego® #7

 The Shot

Time to Make the Doughnuts

The flour offering of the Kohen Gadol is prepared early in the morning.

The Story

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Each day the Kohen Gadol would offer twelve loaves of chavitin (a type of flour offering) on the Outer Mizbeyach. These loaves were prepared fresh every morning in the aptly named Chamber of the Makers of the Chavitin. In this room they would knead a prescribed amount of flour, water, and oil, scald the dough in boiling water, bake it, and then fry it with oil in a pan called a machavas. [The offering is called chavitin on account of the machavas in which it is fried]. 

The ovens and stoves pictured here are standard issue utensils described in Tractate Keilim. It was not necessary to keep bulk quantities on hand in this room since most of the supplies were brought as needed from the Chamber of the Oils in the Women's Courtyard. The door in the western wall of this chamber opened to the Israelites' Courtyard. It was in front of this room that the Kohanim who had just finished checking the perimeter of the Azarah would gather.

The Setup

This shot is modeled and rendered in Bricklink Studio with depth of field added in Photoshop (read more about this process in my introduction). Checkered 1x1 floor tiles create a kitchen look and also make the room feel bigger than if I had used "standard" 2x2 tiles found elsewhere in the model. A compact firewood rack is made from two 4-way Lug Wrenches connected by a Skeleton Arm.

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