the curtain. Like the morning star among the clouds, like the full moon at the festal season; like the sun shining on the Temple of the Most High, like the rainbow gleaming in splendid clouds.” Josephus interpreted the linen vestment of to signify the earth, as flax grows out of the earth. Josephus interpreted the Ephod of the four colors gold, blue, purple, and scarlet to signify that God made the universe of four elements, with the gold interwoven to show the splendor by which all things are enlightened. Josephus saw the stones on the High Priest's shoulders in to represent the sun and the moon. He interpreted the breastplate of to resemble the earth, having the middle place of the world, and the girdle that encompassed the High Priest to signify the ocean, which encircled the world. He interpreted the 12 stones of the Ephod in to represent the months or the signs of the Zodiac. He interpreted the golden bells and pomegranates that says hung on the fringes of the High Priest's garments to signify thunder and lightning, respectively. And Josephus saw the blue on the headdress of to represent heaven, "for how otherwise could the name of God be inscribed upon it?" Josephus reported that the Urim and Thumin stopped shining 200 years before his day, as God had become displeased with the transgressions of God’s law. Exodus chapter 29 Philo taught that the command of to apply ram's blood to the priests' right ear, right thumb, and right great toe signified that the perfect person must be pure in every word, every action, and the entirety of life. For the ear symbolized the hearing with which people judge one's words, the hand symbolized action, and the foot symbolized the way in which a person walks in life. And since each of these is an extremity of the right side of the body, Philo imagined that teaches that one should labor to attain improvement in everything with dexterity and felicity, as an archer aims at a target. In classical rabbinic interpretation The parashah is discussed in these rabbinic sources from the era of the Mishnah and the Talmud: Exodus chapter 27 A Midrash taught that God considers studying the sanctuary’s structure as equivalent to rebuilding it. It was taught in a Baraita that Rabbi Josiah taught that the expression "they shall take for you" (, v'yikhu eileicha)