- How did the pagan rite leaders dress?
- How does the breastplate(s) symbolize the Kohen’s function as representative?
- Why are specialists in rite needed at all?
- Why is Mosheh not assigned the mishkan duties?
- Does Mosheh have any special garb when he enters the mishkan?
- Why are “knickers” worn; how does this dovetail with the mitzvah “lo taalu b’maalot al mizbehi” — that is, “you shall not approach My altar going up on steps?”
- Does the kirvah center require those who will show the Israelites how it is to be approached and used?
- Is it necessary to have those who will have certain special, ongoing functions which the average Israelites could not be expected to carry out regularly?
- Are the personnel (Kohanim) “agents” of B’nai Yisrael?
- Is it appropriate that special responsibilities in the kirvah center should be signalized by a special garb?
- Does clothing ever have a “meaning” when related to the kirvah center; and, later, when all B’nai
- Yisrael will have a special clothing item?
- Does the garb itself, in the mishkan, refer to the central idea of tzedek/mishpat (verse 30)?
- Does the clothing reflect the notion that excess casualness in the kirvah center is to be avoided (verse 35)? Does this mean that the center is a “place of fear” or, rather, that it should not be regarded as “just some other place?”
- How do the personnel of the kirvah center avoid any vestige of the fertility cults of the pagan, and is this reflected in the circumspection of their dress?
