The flute [is played] five or six [days]; this is the flute of the Beis HaSho’evah, which overrides neither Sabbath nor Festival.  They said, “Whoever did not see the rejoicing of the Beis HaSho’evah, never saw rejoicing in his lifetime.”

At the conclusion of the first festival day of Succos they descended to the Women’s Court, where they made a great improvement.  There were golden candelabra there with four golden bowls atop them, four ladders for each [candelabrum], and four youths from [among] the young priests holding pitchers of oil containing one hundred and twenty log, which they poured into each bowl.