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Torah Breast Plate With Two Crowns

BREASTPLATE, metal shield placed in front of the mantle of the Torah scroll in Ashkenazi communities.. Symbolic of, and sometimes similar to, the breastplate prescribed for the high priest (Ex. 28:15ff.), the object is often called ḥoshen mishpat, the Hebrew for the breastplate.

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Uploaded on January 7, 2023
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