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The high priest (<\/span>kohen gadol<\/span><\/em>) had two pieces of clothing that were designed to remind him of the people. The first was the ephod. On the shoulder straps of the ephod were two stones. Engraved on these stones were the names of the tribes. \u201cSix of their names on one stone and six of their names on the other stone in the order of their birth\u201d (verse 10).\u00a0 Were these\u00a0 all 12 names of the original sons? Or were they the 12 names of the sons, minus Levi and Joseph, and including (Joseph\u2019s sons) Ephraim and Menashe?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Later in Deuteronomy, when the nation is split into two groups on two mountains for the blessings and curses Levi is not included in the split. Most likely, if the description talks about listing them in the order of their birth, it probably included the tribe of Levi. Rashi explains that the tribes were listed according to birth. This order is different from previous lists of the brothers where they were separated by birth mother and order of birth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The second piece of hardware that had the names of the brothers was the breastplate. The Gemara explains that the king or high priest could ask a question of God and the answer would be illuminated by the letters on the breastplate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The problem is that not all the letters of the alphabet were listed in the names of the brothers. So the Gemara explains that there were two additional phrases listed on the breast plate. One was the names of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. That included the missing letter <\/span>tzadi<\/span><\/em>. To get the missing letter <\/span>tet<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>it also had the phrase \u201c<\/span>Shivtei Yishurun<\/span><\/em>.\u201d There was another symbolic message conveyed by having the names of the tribes on the heaviest part of the vestments. 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In the New Yorker just a couple of months ago, Simon Schama dove deep into color; how it shocks the eyes and delights the senses, how it is found in the world and concocted in the lab, how it has a language and an emotional register all its own. 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>\r\n

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>\r\n

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. Black fire on white fire instructs, but it is the kaleidoscopic rainbows all around us that tincture the world, and make it worth seeing.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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There's something mysterious and inspiring about uniforms. The Torah's first uniform is described in all its majestic glory in chapter 28, but according to a thought-provoking Midrash, it's a uniform that's been around as long as there have been people to clothe. The \"leather tunics\" in which God dresses Adam and Eve after the sin (Breishit 3:21), according to Midrash Tanchuma (Toldot 12), are none other than the vestments of the high priest.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What does a uniform signify? If you think about 'men in uniform', the first images that may especially come to mind are policemen or soldiers. On these uniforms, three locations in particular are used to symbolize rank, stature, and role- the head, heart, and shoulders.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The same is true of the high priest's uniform. On his heart, he wears the <\/span>choshen<\/span><\/em>, inscribed with the names of the tribes, on his shoulders, two precious stones with a similar inscription, and on his forehead, the <\/span>tzitz<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>inscribed with the words \"Holy to God.\" These three are all connected by the root '<\/em><\/span>nasa<\/span><\/em>', to bear; the Kohen Gadol literally bears the burden of his office on his shoulders, and in his heart, and it is on his mind at all times.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What is the nature of this burden? The purpose of the priestly garments is described in one verse as 'to sanctify them to serve me'; and in another to be 'for honor and glory', and there is no contradiction between them. Honor, in Hebrew, is <\/span>kavod<\/span><\/em>, related to <\/span>kaved<\/span><\/em>, heavy. The Kohen's glory is not a result of his fancy, expensive clothing, but rather of the heavy load of service that he takes on. A uniform expresses a person's commitment to something larger than himself. The Hebrew <\/span>kutonet<\/span><\/em>, <\/span><\/i>tunic (which is related to the English 'cotton') may be connected to the word <\/span>katan<\/span><\/em>, though spelled differently.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

If by nature, there is an unbearable lightness to our being, a uniform represents a person making themselves small in the service of something great, paradoxically making life all the more weighty, filling it with <\/span>kavod<\/span><\/em>, but thus making it bearable. This was the glory of the priestly uniform, and this was God's message of grace to Adam and Chava (see Sota 14b).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\"In the Torah of Rabbi Meir, it does not say 'leather tunics' (\u05e2\u05d5\u05e8, \u2018or) but 'tunics of light' (\u05d0\u05d5\u05e8, or)\". <\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":60139,"alt":"","title":"2sam8-priest","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam8-priest.jpg","width":789,"height":600,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam8-priest-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam8-priest-300x228.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":228,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam8-priest-768x584.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":584,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam8-priest.jpg","large-width":789,"large-height":600,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam8-priest.jpg","1536x1536-width":789,"1536x1536-height":600,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam8-priest.jpg","2048x2048-width":789,"2048x2048-height":600,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam8-priest.jpg","post_full_size-width":789,"post_full_size-height":600,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam8-priest-552x420.jpg","home_baner-width":552,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"","tile_main_caption":"The Bearable Weightiness Of Being","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"A uniform expresses a person's commitment to something larger than himself","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":60139,"alt":"","title":"2sam8-priest","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam8-priest.jpg","width":789,"height":600,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam8-priest-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam8-priest-300x228.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":228,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam8-priest-768x584.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":584,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam8-priest.jpg","large-width":789,"large-height":600,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam8-priest.jpg","1536x1536-width":789,"1536x1536-height":600,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam8-priest.jpg","2048x2048-width":789,"2048x2048-height":600,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam8-priest.jpg","post_full_size-width":789,"post_full_size-height":600,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2sam8-priest-552x420.jpg","home_baner-width":552,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","old_create_date":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","links":false,"send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Exodus","chapter":"28","chapter_main_number":"78","date":"20251216","wall_id":"78"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"587","name":"Dignity","old_id":"987"},{"term_id":"631","name":"Priests","old_id":"1031"}]},{"order":5,"id":"43026","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Golden Bells ","post_title":"Golden Bells","slug":"golden-bells","old_id":"43026","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":33877,"post_title":"Marc Bregman","slug":"marc-bregman","old_id":"33877","first_name":"Marc","last_name":"Bregman","description":"Marc Bregman received his Ph.D. from The Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1991. 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Imagine Aaron, the first High Priest, in his priestly garments, as described in Exodus 28:31-35 (see also Exodus 39:22-25).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

You shall make the robe of the ephod of pure blue. The opening for the head shall be in the middle of it; the opening shall have a binding of woven work round about\u2014it shall be like the opening of a coat of mail\u2014so that it does not tear. On its hem make pomegranates of blue, purple, and crimson yarns, all around the hem, with bells of gold between them all around: a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, all around the hem of the robe. Aaron shall wear it while officiating, so that the sound of it is heard when he comes into the sanctuary before the Lord and when he goes out\u2014that he may not die.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The sages of the Talmud (Zevahim 88b) followed by later Jewish authorities (and even some Christian commentators) discussed the details of what became a priestly dress code in the period of the First, the Second (and even according to some, the future Third) Temples in Jerusalem.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u201cOur Rabbis taught: The robe [<\/span>me'il<\/span><\/em>] was entirely of blue [<\/span>tekhelet<\/span><\/em>] wool, as it is said, \u2018And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.\u2019 (Exodus 39:22). How were its hems [fashioned]? Blue and purple wool and crimson thread twisted together were brought and formed into the shape of pomegranates whose \u2018mouths\u2019 [i.e. calyx, crown] were not yet opened and in the shape of the cones on top of the wicker helmets for roughhousing children. Seventy-two bells containing seventy-two clappers were brought and hung within them, thirty-six on each side [front and back]. Rabbi Dosa said on the authority of Rabbi Judah: There were thirty-six, eighteen on each side\u2026The robe atones for <\/span>lashon ha-ra<\/em> <\/span>[\u201cevil speech\u201d]. Rabbi Hanina\u2019 said: \u2018Let that which emits sound [the golden bells] come and atone for a voice that emitted evil speech\u2019\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Golden bells, like those described in our sources, have been discovered in archaeological sites in Israel and are depicted on priestly garments in ancient Near Eastern art. In 2011, one such golden bell was reported as having been discovered in the excavations in the City of David. This bell seems to have fallen off the garment of some high official -- if not a High Priest himself -- as he walked on the main street to or from the sacrificial service in the Sanctuary in Second Temple Times. This golden bell, the size of a finger-tip, is completely closed, but x-ray examination revealed that inside is a small suspended clapper. When shaken, the tiny bell produced a pure tone (measurable in scientific musical notation as B<\/span>3 \u00a0<\/span>240Hz). 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\u201cAnd bring thou near unto thee Aaron thy brother,\u201d said God, \u201cand his sons with him... that they may minister unto Me.\u201d The word for \u2018bring near\u2019 - <\/span>hakrev<\/span><\/em> \u2013 rings within the sentence like a note of warning.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Except maybe it doesn\u2019t. After all, the root k-r-v<\/em> didn\u2019t come to stand for an offering, <\/span>korban<\/span><\/em>, until the completion of the Tabernacle. Cain brought a \u2018<\/span>mincha<\/span><\/em>\u2019<\/span><\/i>, a word that connotes laying out. Abraham called his offerings \u2018<\/em><\/span>olah<\/span><\/em>, from the word for raising up. Only later, after Aaron and his sons were already brought near and called to duty, did the word come to stand for offerings and sacrifices.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

So maybe, at the time, Moses only heard the promise in God\u2019s order, in His <\/span>hakrev<\/span><\/em>. The root k-r-v<\/em> speaks of closeness, or of one\u2019s insides. How wonderful to be brought so close to God, into the intestines \u2013 so to speak \u2013 \u00a0of His worship. Korach will one day burn with jealousy over this privilege. King David will write \u201cBut as for me, the nearness (\u2018<\/em><\/span>kirvat<\/span><\/em>\u2019) of God is my good.\u201d Yehudah Halevi will weave this word into a song of yearning. \u201c<\/span>Darashti kirvatecha<\/span><\/em>,\u201d, he will write. I sought Your closeness.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

And maybe Moses, who grew up without his brother, heard within this word a different promise, too. \u201cBring thoem near unto thee,\u201d said God, and only then, \u201cthat they may minister.\u201d Aaron, who didn\u2019t share the intimacies of fraternity with Moses in their childhood, could be his partner now. They could work together, and share the intimacies of serving God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

So yes, perhaps Moses didn\u2019t hear any alarms.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Did he hear them in hindsight, I wonder? Did he hear them after God first spoke of \u2018korban<\/em>\u2019 as an offering in Leviticus, or when Aaron\u2019s sons offered, \u2018<\/span>vayakrivu<\/span><\/em>\u2019, \u201cstrange fire before the LORD\u201d and were devoured for it? Did it echo within him when he turned to his bereaved and grieving brother and said \u201cThis is it that the LORD spoke, saying: Through them that are nigh unto Me (\u2018<\/span>krovai<\/span><\/em>\u2019) I will be sanctified?\u201d <\/span><\/p>\r\n

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In Parashat Tetsaveh<\/em> Moses is told to \u201clead Aaron and his sons up to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting\u201d (Exod. 29:4) and to anoint the sons as priests. As part of the ceremony they were to bring sacrificial animals and lay their hands upon them before offering them up on the altar: a bull as a sin offering, a ram as a burnt offering, and a second ram as a special consecration offering.<\/p>\r\n

In visualizing this episode, Avner Moriah portrays Aaron and two of his sons standing together near the altar sacrificing a ram. Fire is engulfing both the ram and the young priests. Aaron is wearing his distinctive headdress and his sons are clothed in matching tunics. The scene seems to be in keeping with the verse: \u201cMake sacral vestments for your brother Aaron for dignity and adornment\u201d (Exod. 28:2).<\/p>\r\n

Why does the artist figure the altar and the priests in an exterior space when the text says explicitly that Aaron and his sons were led up to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting? Why are only two sons pictured when, according to the Bible, there were four: \u201cNadav and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron\u201d (Exod. 28:1)? Why is the fire engulfing not only the ram but the young priests as well?<\/p>\r\n

Portraying the scene against a background of hills depicting the ram with its horn curled (suggesting a shofar<\/em>) lying on top of the altar might be an allusion to the ram in the story of the Binding of Isaac (the Akedah<\/em>). In hinting at an association between the present episode and the Akedah<\/em>, the artist is suggesting a parallel between the Lord\u2019s testing of Abraham\u2019s faithfulness and the consecration of Aaron and his sons, binding them to serve God faithfully. In the story of the Akedah<\/em>, Abraham was commanded to prove his fidelity by sacrificing his son Isaac, but upon proving his total devotion he was given a ram to offer instead.<\/p>\r\n

Aaron\u2019s sons were also commanded to offer sacrifices, but here the flames of their burnt offering seem to surround them, perhaps a prevision of their misguided sense of devotion on the day that the Mishkan <\/em>was consecrated: \u201cAaron\u2019s sons Nadab and Abihu\u2026 offered before the Lord alien fire, which He had not enjoined upon them. And fire came forth from the Lord and consumed them, and they died before the Lord\u201d (Lev. 10:1\u20132). In their eagerness to prove themselves faithful to God they misunderstood their priestly obligations and did not fulfill their sacred functions according to God\u2019s commands.<\/p>\r\n

By portraying the consecration episode showing only two of Aaron\u2019s sons, both engulfed in flames, the artist is suggesting that fidelity to God demands not only the kind of devotion that was so characteristic of Abraham, but also discipline and a sense of responsibility that obviates the kind of ecstasy that might lead to \u201cstrange fire.\u201d<\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":71238,"alt":"","title":"20 Tetsaveh","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20-Tetsaveh.jpg","width":1936,"height":2500,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20-Tetsaveh-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20-Tetsaveh-232x300.jpg","medium-width":232,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20-Tetsaveh-768x992.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":992,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20-Tetsaveh-793x1024.jpg","large-width":793,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20-Tetsaveh.jpg","1536x1536-width":1189,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20-Tetsaveh.jpg","2048x2048-width":1586,"2048x2048-height":2048,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20-Tetsaveh-929x1200.jpg","post_full_size-width":929,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20-Tetsaveh-325x420.jpg","home_baner-width":325,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"The Chapter Illustrated","tile_main_caption":"Tetzaveh - 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Why is the Torah so specific and emphatic about the clothes to be worn by the Cohen and the Cohen Gadol (priest and high priest)? In general, Judaism is sceptical about appearances. Appearances deceive. The Hebrew word for garment, \u201cbegged<\/em>,\u201d comes from the same Hebrew word as \u201cto betray\u201d \u2013 as in the confession \u201cAshamnu, bagadnu<\/em>,\u201d - \u00a0\u201cWe are guilty, we have betrayed.\u201d Jacob uses Esau\u2019s clothes to deceive. Joseph\u2019s brothers do likewise with his bloodstained cloak. There are six such examples in the book of Genesis alone. Why then did God command that the cohanim<\/em> were to wear distinctive garments as part of their service in the tabernacle and later in the Temple?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The answer lies in the two-word phrase that appears twice in this chapter, defining what the priestly vestments were to represent: \u201cle-kavod ule-tiferet<\/em>,\u201d \u201cfor dignity [or \u2018honor\u2019] and beauty.\u201d These are unusual words in the Torah, at least in a human context. The word tiferet<\/em>, \u201cbeauty\u201d or \u201cglory,\u201d appears only three times in the Torah, twice in our chapter (Ex. 28: 2, 40) and once, poetically and with a somewhat different sense, in Deuteronomy 26: 19.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The word kavod<\/em>, \u201cdignity\u201d or honor,\u201d appears sixteen times, but in fourteen (2\u00d77) of these cases the reference is to the glory of God. The twice they appear in our parsha are the only occasions in which kavod<\/em> is applied to a human being. So what is happening here?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The answer is that they represent the aesthetic dimension. This does not always figure prominently in Judaism. It is something we naturally connect with cultures a world apart from the Torah. The great empires \u2013 Mesopotamia, Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Greece and Rome \u2013 built monumental palaces and temples. The royal courts were marked by magnificent robes, cloaks, crowns and regalia, each rank with its own uniform and finery.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Judaism by contrast often seems almost puritanical in its avoidance of pomp and display. Worshipping the invisible God, Judaism tended to devalue the visual in favor of the oral and aural: words heard rather than appearances seen.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Yet the service of the tabernacle and Temple were different. Here appearances \u2013 dignity, beauty \u2013 did make a difference. Why? Maimonides gives this explanation:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In order to exalt the Temple, those who ministered there received great honor, and the priests and Levites were therefore distinguished from the rest. It was commanded that the priest should be clothed properly with the most splendid and fine clothes, \u201choly garments for glory and for beauty\u201d \u2026 for the multitude does not estimate man by his true form but by \u2026 the beauty of his garments, and the Temple was to be held in great reverence by all.\u201d (Guide for the Perplexed, III:45)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The High Priest\u2019s elaborate uniform included a \u201cbreastpiece of judgment,\u201d called the <\/span>hoshen mishpat<\/em> <\/span>(Exodus 28:15). Inside the breastpiece were the \u201cUrim and Thummim\u201d (UT; sometimes just called \u201cUrim\u201d), The UT are mentioned few times in the Bible (including Num 27:21; Deut 33:8; 1 Sam 28:6; Ez 2:63; Neh 7:65) and never in great detail. From these references, we can glean that the UT were involved in a form of divination \u2013 i.e., seeking knowledge from God \u2013 that the priest could practice. (In contrast with other such forbidden practices (listed in Deut 18:9-14), the UT were sanctioned).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

But what exactly are the UT?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The ancient Greek, Aramaic, and Latin versions of the Bible render the UT in various ways: translations of \u201cUrim\u201d suggest \u201crevelation,\u201d \u201cmanifestations,\u201d or \u201clight\u201d; and of \u201cThummim\u201d suggest \u201ctruth,\u201d \u201cperfections,\u201d \u201choliness,\u201d and \u201cdoctrine.\u201d But this does not shed light on what the object is, nor on its function.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The most detailed illustration of the UT is in the Septuagint\u2019s Greek version of 1 Samuel 14:23-46, which is distinctly different from the Hebrew Masoretic text. To discover who had violated a royal ban, King Saul sets up a choice between \u201cUrim\u201d - representing himself and his son Jonathan on one side \u2013 and \u201cThummim,\u201d representing the rest of his officers on the other side. The lot chooses Saul and Jonathan and then just Jonathan. This version of the story presents the UT as lots that the priest could cast to decide between two options. Other incidences of lot-casting (though not explicitly via the UT) in the Hebrew Bible include uses to find the guilty party who illicitly took spoils of war from Jericho (Joshua 7); to divide the land of Israel among the tribes (Josh 14-21); and to determine who would be Israel\u2019s first king (1 Sam 10).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

To clarify the function of the UT, modern scholars Wayne Horowitz and Victor Hurowitz have proposed a parallel with a Mesopotamian lot-casting practice, where one would take black and white stones, draw gods in rectangles on the ground, ask questions, and cast lots. Possibly, as the Septuagint indicates and these scholars suggest, the UT also were lot-stones, kept inside the breastpiece for the priest to use in divination. 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Does the clothing really make the man (or woman)? <\/span><\/p>\r\n

The 28th chapter of Exodus certainly seems to say so. It outlines the clothing that the kohen gadol<\/em> (high priest) must wear. \u201cThe priestly garments shall be worn by Aaron and by his sons when they enter the Tent of Meeting or when they approach the altar to serve in the Holy, so they will not bear iniquity and die.\u201d Rashi explains that if any requirement related to the clothing is not heeded, not only is the life of the high priest at stake, but it will invalidate the entire sacrifice being offered!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In Judaism, we are used to focusing on what\u2019s inside, not what\u2019s outside, in our spiritual service of God. So we can\u2019t help but wonder-- why here is clothing so important?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

What the high priest wears isn\u2019t normal clothing. It\u2019s \u2018spiritual clothing\u2019. Each item represents the values, prayers, and voices of all of Israel.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

For example, two shoham<\/em> stones were engraved with the names of the tribes and the stones were placed on the shoulder straps of the ephod. The Torah explains, \u201cAaron shall carry their\u00a0<\/span>names before the Lord upon his two shoulders as a remembrance\u201d. Why? The stones at once represent unity and diversity. The unity of every Jew coming together, and the diversity within those many names and voices. Through the shoham<\/em> stones in his clothing, Aaron spiritually carries all of us in his service of God.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Without each detail of the clothing, the Jewish people wouldn\u2019t be fully spiritually represented. This is certainly enough to disqualify the sacrifices offered and compromise the high priest\u2019s ability to lead. And so, the clothing doesn\u2019t just make the man-- it makes the spiritual service of the nation. <\/span><\/p>\r\n

Pick one item of clothing in this chapter and unravel the meaning within!<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":"","post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"The Reason for The Robes","tile_main_caption":"Each item of priestly clothing represents the values, prayers, and voices of all of Israel. Pick one item of clothing in this chapter and unravel the meaning within","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":"","tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","old_create_date":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","links":false,"send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Exodus","chapter":"28","chapter_main_number":"78","date":"20251216","wall_id":"78"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"576","name":"Clothes","old_id":"976"},{"term_id":"631","name":"Priests","old_id":"1031"},{"term_id":"680","name":"Symbolism","old_id":"1080"}]},{"order":12,"id":"43022","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"The Wise Of Heart ","post_title":"The Wise Of Heart","slug":"the-wise-of-heart","old_id":"43022","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":36669,"post_title":"Yakov Azriel","slug":"yakov-azriel","old_id":"36669","first_name":"Yakov ","last_name":"Azriel","description":"Yakov Azriel, who lives in Israel, has published five books of poetry in the USA and hundreds of poems in journals and magazines. His poems have won twenty-two prizes in international poetry competitions, and he has twice been awarded fellowships from the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture.","short_description":"Yakov Azriel is an English language poet who lives in Israel","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":36670,"alt":"","title":"Yakov.Azriel.Photo","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Yakov.Azriel.Photo_-e1533158407668.jpg","width":1099,"height":1519,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Yakov.Azriel.Photo_-e1533158407668-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Yakov.Azriel.Photo_-e1533158407668-217x300.jpg","medium-width":217,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Yakov.Azriel.Photo_-e1533158407668-741x1024.jpg","medium_large-width":741,"medium_large-height":1024,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Yakov.Azriel.Photo_-e1533158407668-741x1024.jpg","large-width":741,"large-height":1024,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Yakov.Azriel.Photo_-e1533158407668.jpg","1536x1536-width":1099,"1536x1536-height":1519,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Yakov.Azriel.Photo_-e1533158407668.jpg","2048x2048-width":1099,"2048x2048-height":1519,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Yakov.Azriel.Photo_-e1533158407668-868x1200.jpg","post_full_size-width":868,"post_full_size-height":1200,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Yakov.Azriel.Photo_-e1533158407668-304x420.jpg","home_baner-width":304,"home_baner-height":420}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"78","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"Woven on the loom of the spirit, as threads into fabric, that outlasts stones","post_main_content_content":"

\"And you shall speak to the wise of heart, to whom I have given the wisdom of the heart \u2026\" (Exodus 28:3)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

At the <\/span>Kotel<\/span><\/i>, I close my eyes
\r\n<\/span>And place my hands upon its stones.
\r\n<\/span>Its stones \u2014 warmer and softer than an infant\u2019s skin.
\r\n<\/span>The minutes pass; an hour; my hands do not move as they pray,
\r\n<\/span>As they absorb the Message.
\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Message relayed to me through my hands
\r\n<\/span>By the stones: that the wise of heart
\r\n<\/span>Gather spiderwebs of the imagination,
\r\n<\/span>To weave from them
\r\n<\/span>Vestments of a Temple priest.
\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Vestments of a Temple priest:
\r\n<\/span>The ephod and mantle,
\r\n<\/span>The turban and tunic
\r\n<\/span>He must wear
\r\n<\/span>In order to serve God.
\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n

To serve God:
\r\n<\/span>For eye cannot see, nor ears hear,
\r\n<\/span>Nor the mind grasp
\r\n<\/span>God;
\r\n<\/span>Only spiderwebs of the imagination.
\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Only spiderwebs of the imagination, and sunbeams|
\r\n<\/span>That penetrate the cavern of the soul,
\r\n<\/span>Woven on the loom of the spirit
\r\n<\/span>As threads into fabric
\r\n<\/span>That outlasts stones.
\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Stones of the <\/span>Kotel<\/span><\/i> whisper me this secret:
\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sunbeams and spiderwebs fashion the vestments
\r\n<\/span>Worn by the wise of heart
\r\n<\/span>Who know how to unlock the gates
\r\n<\/span>And enter the Temple of God.<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":50231,"alt":"","title":"Dt10-heart","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt10-heart.jpg","width":900,"height":386,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt10-heart-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt10-heart-300x129.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":129,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt10-heart-768x329.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":329,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt10-heart.jpg","large-width":900,"large-height":386,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt10-heart.jpg","1536x1536-width":900,"1536x1536-height":386,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt10-heart.jpg","2048x2048-width":900,"2048x2048-height":386,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt10-heart.jpg","post_full_size-width":900,"post_full_size-height":386,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt10-heart.jpg","home_baner-width":900,"home_baner-height":386}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"929 Poetry Corner","tile_main_caption":"The Wise Of Heart","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Woven on the loom of the spirit, as threads into fabric, that outlasts stones","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":50231,"alt":"","title":"Dt10-heart","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt10-heart.jpg","width":900,"height":386,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt10-heart-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt10-heart-300x129.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":129,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt10-heart-768x329.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":329,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt10-heart.jpg","large-width":900,"large-height":386,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt10-heart.jpg","1536x1536-width":900,"1536x1536-height":386,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt10-heart.jpg","2048x2048-width":900,"2048x2048-height":386,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt10-heart.jpg","post_full_size-width":900,"post_full_size-height":386,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Dt10-heart.jpg","home_baner-width":900,"home_baner-height":386}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","old_create_date":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","links":false,"send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Exodus","chapter":"28","chapter_main_number":"78","date":"20251216","wall_id":"78"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"362","name":"Poetry","old_id":"762"}]},{"order":13,"id":"42943","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Sefaria Source Sheets - Exodus 28 ","post_title":"Sefaria Source Sheets - Exodus 28","slug":"sefaria-source-sheets-exodus-28","old_id":"42943","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":42228,"post_title":"Sefaria","slug":"sefaria","old_id":"42228","first_name":"","last_name":"Sefaria","description":"Sefaria is a non-profit organization dedicated to building the future of Jewish learning in an open and participatory way. 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Men make clothes, clothes don't make the man<\/span><\/a> by Dan Epstein: What does the Bible think about the importance of outfits?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The Spirituality of Physicality<\/span><\/a> by Leora Troy: How does physical beauty relate to spiritual experience? <\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":"","post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"Go deeper into the chapter....","tile_main_caption":"Sefaria Source Sheets - Exodus 28","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Click to get links to learning resources","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":42232,"alt":"","title":"sefaria-words-sunburst","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","width":608,"height":395,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst-300x195.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":195,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","medium_large-width":608,"medium_large-height":395,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","large-width":608,"large-height":395,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","1536x1536-width":608,"1536x1536-height":395,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","2048x2048-width":608,"2048x2048-height":395,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","post_full_size-width":608,"post_full_size-height":395,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","home_baner-width":608,"home_baner-height":395}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"Sefaria word sunburst visualization","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Exodus","chapter":"28","chapter_main_number":"78","date":"20251216","wall_id":"78"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":14,"id":"42851","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"A Lesson on the Daily Chapter- Exodus 28 ","post_title":"A Lesson on the Daily Chapter- Exodus 28","slug":"a-lesson-on-the-daily-chapter-exodus-28","old_id":"42851","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":40936,"post_title":"David Silber","slug":"david-silber-2","old_id":"40936","first_name":"David ","last_name":"Silber ","description":"Rabbi David Silber is the Founder and Dean of Drisha Institute for Jewish Education. 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  1. Naming and faming<\/em>. The names of the Israelites were very important re the priestly vestments. But names in general are important in the chapter. The appointed priests are mentioned one by one, by name: \u201cAaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron\u201d (verse 1).<\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Urim and thummim<\/em> (verse 30). One of the more mysterious of the holy appurtenances that played an important role in later stories. Why, and what did they do? Wait patiently for the book of Numbers (or if you want a sneak preview - peak at Numbers 27).<\/li>\r\n\t
  3. The ancient ancestor of lace<\/em>. Look for it in verse 32.<\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Who\u2019s King around here<\/em>? The \u201cfrontlet of pure gold\u201d (tzitz hazahav<\/em> - verse 36) is reminiscent of a crown. But note what is written on it, and decide for yourselves who here is the king: god or the priest.<\/li>\r\n\t
  5. Danger\u2019s shadow.<\/em> Above the holy festivities there hovers a dark threatening cloud. Traces of it can be seen in verses 35 and 43.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","post_main_content_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"The Daily Summary","tile_main_caption":"Points to Ponder: Exodus 28","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Insights and questions for personal reflection and group discussion","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","old_create_date":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","links":false,"send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Torah","book":"Exodus","chapter":"28","chapter_main_number":"78","date":"20251216","wall_id":"78"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false}],"hide_acf":true,"home_image":false,"home_posts":false,"home_posts_title":"","posts_home":[],"static_cube_title":"","static_cube_brief":"","static_cube_color":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall\/42845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wall"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}