What is a National Monument? Who gazettes them? How many national monuments are there in Singapore? To date, the Preservation of Sites and Monuments, a division of National Heritage Board, has identified and gazetted 75 buildings, structures and sites of national significance as an integral part of Singapore's built heritage. In this edition, we focus our attention on Chesed-El Synagogue,.
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This marvelous yet dry chapter teaches us many lessons. After laws (
Mishpatim) and the building of the sanctuary (
Terumah) this chapter deals with priestly garments. It is the third part of the
“how to” manual. In modern language:
this chapter is about fashion and beauty.
Next you shall instruct all who are skillful, whom I have endowed with the gift of skill, to make Aaron’s vestments, for consecrating him to serve Me as priest. These are the vestments they are to make: a breastpiece, an ephod, a robe, a fringed tunic, a headdress, and a sash. They shall make those sacral vestments for your brother Aaron and his sons, for priestly service to Me; they, therefore, shall receive the gold, the blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and the fine linen. They shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, purple, and crimson yarns, and of fine twisted linen, worked into designs. (EX 28:4-6)