Preparations.

Kaufman, Shirley

The design for the harp is based on cave drawings at Meggido which are 4 to 5,000 years old and predate the Temple . . .

The Jerusalem Post

The loom is computerized. He has already woven the robe for the priest and the pants, like the robe, one seamless garment.

She's spinning the thread and weaving the cloth for the thirty-two meter girdle.

They've finished the silver cup for the sacrifice, large enough for the blood of a large cow.

After they breed the red heifers (only their ashes are pure enough), after they score the still unheard music, after the eleven spices are gathered in separate jars and the golden crown and the solid gold menorah and the lottery box for the two goats

they'll be ready.

SHIRLEY KAUFMAN was born in Seattle, lived in San Francisco, and settled in Jerusalem in 1373. She has published seven volumes of her poetry in the USA, the most recent:Roots in the Air, New and Selected Poems (1396), translations from the Hebrew of the poetry of Amir Gilboa and Abba Kovner; and won numerous prizes. Her Selected Poems, translated by Aharon Shabtai, was published by the Bialik Press in Israel in 1935. Her article, "Roots in the Air, "appeared in Spring 1938.