Parochet (Hebrew: פרוכת) (also paroches, parokhet) is the curtain on the front of the Aron Kodesh (Torah Ark) in a synagogue that covers the Sifrei Torah (Torah scrolls). In most cases, behind the parochet is also a door. This curtain represents the covering that was on the original Ark of the Covenant. The term parochet is used in the Bible to describe the curtain that separated the Kodesh Hakodashim (Holy of Holies) from the main hall of the Temple in Jerusalem.

The parochet used in the Temple was made from wool and linen, and was exempt from the laws of Shatnez, which apply only to clothing worn on the body, not to furnishings in a building.

Shemot / Exodus 26:31-35 describes this curtain as it existed in the desert Tabernacle. It separated the Holy Place from the Holy of Holies. Only the Cohen HaGadol was allowed to pass through it into the Holy of Holies; and that he could do only once a year, on Yom-Kippur, to make an atonement sacrifice for his sins and for the sins of all Israel. When it was ripped in two from top to bottom it symbolized the fact that HaShem was giving everyone access to the most holy place of all in heaven, as taught explicitly at Ivrim / Hebrews 9:3-9, 10:19-22.

The Talmud bears an amazing witness to the work of Maran Yeshua and the system of atonement. The background is that on Yom-Kippur, when the Cohen HaGadol sacrificed a bull (Vayikra / Leviticus 16); a piece of scarlet cloth was tied between its horns. If it later turned white, it meant that HaShem had forgiven Israel’s sin in accordance with Yeshayahu / Isaiah 1:18, "Though your sins are as scarlet, they will be white as snow."

The Talmud has this to say concerning such practice after Maran Yeshua’s atoning death, and resurrection: "Our Rabbis taught that throughout the forty years that Shim’on the Tzaddik served,… the scarlet cloth would become white. From then on it would sometimes become white and sometimes not…. Throughout the last forty years before the Temple was destroyed… the scarlet cloth never turned white." (Yoma 39a-39b) See also the JPS encyclopedia pages: 365-7

Thus in the days of Shim’on Tzaddik the sacrificial system established by HaShem in the Tanach was observed, and it was effective in so far they walked in His holy ways. But afterwards Israel’s spirituality declined, so that the sacrificial system was effective only sometimes (When they were obedient). Finally, forty years before the destruction of the Temple, it was never effective. The Talmud does not say it, and it does not connects the dots, but after Maran Yeshua left (Acts 1.9), there were 40 years left for the Holy Temple of HaShem. A true worshiper of HaShem would repent before HaShem before bringing a Korban (gift) before the Mizbeach (Altar), the red thread represented the true heart of the leadership in Israel, thus it did not turn white ever since….

Israel, do teshuva (repent), HaShem is revealing the Mashiach once more. It is time to do teshuva.

“Whoever does not await His coming, not only denies the other prophets, but the Torah and Moshe Rabbeinu.” The Rambam”