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It signifies royalty and suggests both the gaudy and the glamorous. There is even a color called Dragon\u2019s Blood, which Schama reports was believed to owe its particular hue to \u201cthe wounds of dragons and elephants locked in mortal combat.\u201d How could you care to wear anything less, or more?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today\u2019s chapter explodes with color, to a degree not seen since Joseph\u2019s bespoke coat was ripped and bloodied. Of course, there has been a thread of color running throughout, and the entire story of the Exodus can be traced through the bright red blood over the doors in Egypt, the swirling azure and white brininess of the Red Sea before it split, and the endless dull brown sand and the dangerously gleaming gold of the Calf. Here, however, the regalia of the High Priest is laced with color. Verse 6 reads \u201cand they shall make the ephod of gold, and blue, and purple, scarlet and fine twisted linen, the work of the skillful workman.\u201d These hues are joined by the blinding array of precious metals on the breastplate, the half dozen jewels of color made when the world was born that would come to refract and represent the twelve tribes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We do not usually think of Judaism as prizing the visual. There is the Second Commandment, of course, and the lingering trauma of the glittering gold at Sinai. Perhaps the radiance of the High Priest\u2019s vestments suggests that possibility that color can be redeemed, and that a world without brightness is no place for the sacred. 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