Parochet (פָּרֹכֶת) is the Hebrew noun for the veil or curtain that separated the Holy of Holies (Qodesh HaQodashim, קֹדֶשׁ הַקֳּדָשִׁים) from the Holy Place (Qodesh, קֹדֶשׁ) in the Mishkan and later in the Beit HaMikdash. Shemot 26:31-35 prescribes its construction: blue, purple, and crimson yarn with fine linen, woven with cherubim, hung on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold, separating the Aron HaBrit (the Ark of the Covenant) from the rest of the sanctuary.

Vayikra 16:2 establishes the parochet's function as a divine boundary. YHWH instructs Moshe to tell Aharon not to enter at any time past the parochet into the Holy of Holies, "lest he die." The exception is Yom Kippur, when the Kohen Gadol enters once a year, alone, in plain linen, with the blood of the sin offering for himself and for the people. The parochet is the architecture of mediation. It exists because a sinful people cannot stand directly in the presence of YHWH's kavod, and the priestly office stands in the gap on a tightly bounded annual schedule.

The Brit Chadashah records that at the death of Yeshua, "the parochet of the Temple was torn in two, from top to bottom" (Matthew 27:51; Mark 15:38; Luke 23:45). The direction of the tearing matters. Top to bottom is the Father's hand, not a man's. The parochet's purpose was to keep the people from the Holy of Holies until atonement was made; the tearing announces that the atonement has been made permanently, the mediator-priest role has been retired, and the path into the Holy of Holies is now open to every believer through the blood of Yeshua.

Hebrews 10:19-22 develops the implication: "We have boldness to enter the Holy of Holies by the blood of Yeshua, by a new and living way which He has consecrated for us through the parochet, that is, His flesh." The parochet is identified typologically with the body of Yeshua. The veil that separated has become the way that connects. Any reconstruction of the mediator-priest function after the parochet has been torn is, structurally, the rebuilding of a curtain the Father deliberately took down.