e/House of Avitnas

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has gloss	eng: According to the Talmud, the House of Avitnas was responsible for compounding the ketoret, the incense offered on the Inner Altar in the Temple of Jerusalem. The Talmud praised the Avitnas family for never permitting the familys female members to be seen wearing perfume, to avoid any possible suspicion that they might be appropriating Temple resources for their own personal use. The Talmud relates that they knew a secret ingredient -- Maaleh Ashan -- that had the ability to make the smoke from the incense rise straight up in a column. They refused to disclose the secret and it became lost following the Second Temples destruction in 70 CE.
lexicalization	eng: House of avitnas
instance of	c/Tabernacle and Jerusalem Temples