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Of the 12 occurrences of the expression: לכהן לי “for the purpose of performing the priestly functions for me,” half are to be found in parashat T’tsaweh. Allegorically, this expression means “for the purpose of giving something precise and mindful attention with respect to me.”1 In Judaism, the kohaen represents the ideal behavior to which every Jewish person is to aspire. As stated earlier in Exodus: You shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a nation of holiness. A kohaen is a person who behaves with precise and mindful intention, a person who engages experience with precise and mindful attention. The first priest was Aharon. Allegorically, his name means “the m