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Is there a special blessing for wearing the Bigdei Kehuna?
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Would the Kohanim recite a blessing upon wearing the Bigdei Kehunah
R. Yaaqobh Greenwald's Beer Yaaqobh (p. 192):
ומצינו בארצות החיים סי' יט שכתב בפשיטות שמברכים על לבישת בגדי כהונה
אמנם בנחל ...
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What are the sacred garments called?
They are referred to as בגדי לבן bigdei lavan, the “white garments.”
See Yoma 34b in reference to the preparations for the service in the Kodesh Hakodashim:
הֵבִיאוּ לוֹ בִּגְדֵי לָבָן לָבַשׁ ...
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The cloak full of techeiles is the Me'il?-Korach's issue
The Midrash Tanchuma when explaining Korach's argument calls it a טלית שכולה תכלת, a garment made entirely of techeiles. Later it says לקח טליתו which may indicate that he confronted Moshe with his ...
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Why not פִּטְדָּֽה?
The historical elision of a vowel preceding ד could explain the absence of a dagesh qal within it. Similar phenomena are seen in words like בִּנְפֹל and מַלְכֵי. The latter probably was pronounced ...
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Kohen with eyeglasses
Yittur Begaddim
According to the Gemara (Eruvin 103) and Rambam (Kli HaMikdash 10:8), something smaller than 3x3 (tefachim) is not a beged if shelo bmokom begadim (not in place regularly clothed):
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How does Lev. 6:3 demonstrate that a kohen's tunic must rest directly on his skin?
Rashi Vayikra 6,3 explains why the Torah calls the tunic "מִדּ֣וֹ" (middo) when it is normally referred to as "כתנת" (kutonet e.g Shemot 29,39) . The word מִדּ֣וֹ comes from the word מדתו (midato) ...
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Why did Nadav and Avihu specifically not wear the Me'il?
The Alshich and the Kli Yakar both note that the Meil atones for speech ,namely loshon harah,and it is hinting to the idea that they spoke loshon harah on Moshe Rabbeinu and Ahron Hakohein. So in ...
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The priestly breastplate?
We have not had the Urim Vetumim (the insert with the name of Hashem put into the Choshen) since the end of the first temple. The Choshen (with the stones) was commanded as part of the Bigdei Kehunah (...
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What was the point of using the Urim v'Tummim to know the will of God if there was prophecy?
You can get a response from the urim vtumim without nevuah. Ruach hakodesh is sufficient. As @DoubleAA mentioned you can get a response whenever necessary vs nevuah if you're not Moshe rabeinu. That ...
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Double listing of Shvatim on Cohen clothing
Rabbi Immanuel Bernstein says in an article about the Miluim stones that the two appearances of the names relate to their significance as part of the nation (on the Shoham stones) and to their ...
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Does Exodus 28:42 suggest that exposing the thighs exposes nakedness?
A nice question! Your problem stems from a mistranslation of "ערוה" here as "nakedness" rather than "private parts".
"ערוה" is indeed a very vague word (as ...
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The priestly breastplate?
In answer to the question of "how", here is some explanation
The אוּרִים ותוּמִים [sic], Urim V’tumim, served as a means of communicating with G-d. Rashi states, in Yomah 73b, that the High Priest ...
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Tetzaveh: (Re)creating the garments
There is an institute in Jerusalem that seeks to recreate them to have them ready at some point in the future.
Otherwise, using them today is misguided. At the bare minimum, they contained a mix of ...
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Why the difference in כאשר צוה ה׳ between Vayakhel and Pekudei?
Rav Hirsch, in his commentary on Pekudei 39:1 states that the individual garments were commanded separately and were considered complete as soon as they were finished and ready to be worn. The mishkan ...
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Did the kohanim wear tefillin during their Temple services?
רש"י (שמות כ"ח ל"ז) describes the placement of the straps on the ציץ that was worn by the כהן גדול to be consistent with wearing תפילין at the same time.
על פתיל תכלת. ובמקום אחר הוא ...
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How does the Temple Institute choose among disagreeing interpretations on Temple construction?
The Temple Institue has apparently chosen one of the opinions for the Choshen Mishpat. The web site statement does not say who determined this particular psak.
However, the research page states that ...
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Why is the making of the ephod expressed in plural?
The Ark contained the Tablets and represents the idea of studying and observing Torah. The word “eifod” (אפד) has the numerical value of 85, which spells the word “peh” (פ=80, ה=5) — “mouth” — and is ...
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Why is the making of the ephod expressed in plural?
Keli Yakar to 28:6 says that only the Ephod and the Aron as well were constructed by the entire nation, since they come to atone for Avodah Zarah (Arachin 16), which the whole nation sinned in at the ...
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What was the significance of Pomegranates?
Welcome, and great question!
This is one of the many questions that Ramban (Shemot 28:31) asks on Rashi (and others), and he therefore rejects their opinion.
However, in responding to Ramban, ...
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Why may the me'il, in particular, not be torn?
It doesn't apply only to the me'il. Rambam (Hilchos Klei Hamikdash 9:3) says:
והקורע פי המעיל לוקה שנאמר לא יקרע והוא הדין לכל בגדי כהונה שהקורען דרך השחתה לוקה
One who tears the border of the ...
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