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Page 100 Mesectas Menachois
"Barkai"
In the days when the Temple stood, the Kohanim would offer the "korban tamid," before any other sacrifices were offered.
Towards the end of each night, the supervisor of the Kohanim would appoint a Kohein to stand at the highest area of the Temple to gaze towards the east to watch when exactly the sun rose.
As soon as the appointed "watcher" would notice sunrise he would shout out "barkai" .... meaning the sun rose.
There are rabbis who are of the opinion that the Kohanim would wait a bit more till sunrise was more prominent.
The reason they would appoint someone to watch and announce the sunrise, was because of a story that actually happened.
It happened that the Kohanim once saw the moon on the east and thought that it was the sun rising, and they went ahead and sacrificed the "korban tamid" while it was still night, which invalidated the sacrifice.
They were then forced to burn it since the Halacha is that there cannot be any sacrifices offered at night.
They therefore appointed someone who would be able to distinguish when the sun actually rose.
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