Aron

Aaron stands in the center wearing the high priest's robes, most notably the Breastplate of Judgment inlaid with twelve gemstones. He holds a censer over a flaming stone altar, with a bull and a sheep resting in the landscape behind him. In the foreground, ritual instruments lie near his feet, which peek out from beneath a hem decorated with small bells.

As the first High Priest, Aaron represents the bridge between the earthly and divine through sacred ritual. His breastplate (the Hoshen) became a focal point for Christian Kabbalists and natural philosophers who linked its twelve stones to the zodiacal signs and the celestial hierarchy.