Tetzaveh
In depth
The word tetzaveh, “you shall command,” also means “you shall connect” and “you shall bond.”
That they bring to you pure olive oil . . . to raise an everlasting lamp . . . from evening to morning (27:20–21)
For such is our mission in life: to impart the eternity and perfection of the Divine to a temporal world, and to do so not by annihilating or overwhelming the world’s temporality and diversity, but by illuminating its every state and condition—from “evening” to “morning”—with the divine light.
(Lubavitzer Rabbi)
Pure olive oil, crushed for the light (27:20)
Just as the olive yields light only when it is pounded, so are man’s greatest potentials realized only under the pressure of adversity.
(The Talmud)
Notes
28:30] Placement of Urim and Tumim into breastplate, upon Aaron's heart.
28:17-20] Names of stones: odem, pitoah, barekes, nophech, sapir, yahalom, tarshish, shoham, yashfeh.
28:6-10] Is the order same as on the two shoham
stones, by birth?
29:6-7] First place the turban on his head, then anoint him with oil?
29:21] Sprinkle blood and oil on the vestments... would that not soil them? Yet instead, it makes the clothes holy?
29:25-26] "You shall wave them, as a waving before HaShem". Interesting choice - what are they waving— not the people! It might be similar to the waving we do at the football matches.
29:35] 7 days of inauguration; twice a day. That would require sets of vestments or some subset of that.
30:7] Here we have the mysterious spice-incense.
n28:30] Urim from אור (light); while Tumim (plus the ineffable name) and anointing oil, light up with letters, which if read correctly...
n28:2] Glory accrues to a person even because of God-given abilities, while splendour refers to the regard he has earned through his own accomplishments.
n28:33] Pomegranates: 72 bells, 72 pomegranates => 72 shades of white (מצורה metzora)
n28:41] ומלאת את ידם - inaugurate, as in "fill hands" as opposed to empty-handed. Fill position, invested with authority - as in full hands.