• What is the Choshen Mishpat and how does it function? Why is it called mishpat — judgment?
  • How do the twelve individual stones on the Choshen relate to their specific tribes?
  • What is the relationship between the six-and-six names on the shoulders and the twelve names on the heart?
  • The four rivers of Gan Eden, the four rows of the Choshen, the four camps of the degalim — is this a pattern?
  • Why is the entire third row of the Choshen missing from Yechezkel 28? Is the Malbim's explanation the whole story?
  • The full context of Yechezkel 28 — what does the Gan Eden imagery in the prophecy against Tyre mean, and how do the mefarshim understand it?
  • What does tiferes really mean in the context of the bigdei kodesh?