Being It

A witness, or a testimony, the bare facts of something, is connected to the idea of empirical account, reporting, and an audit, a story one can see for himself. All the items: the altar, the water basin, Aaron’s clothes, the jewels, gold, all people, sacrifices, and rituals that were to take place inside the Tabernacle were visible depictions, representations of something that is not visible. They are the way they are because they are earthly representations of the kind of relationship that Hashem established with Israel.

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