Author's post publication note: I had to correct one mistake that was published on the paper. I had been researching details on the veil, and most of my information was detailing King Solomon's temple. When I wrote the column, I ended up calling the temple on Jesus' day "King Solomon's Temple", but that temple was destroyed around 586 BC, when Babylon destroyed Jerusalem.  The Temple of Jesus's day was known as  Herod's temple.  Jerusalem was the center of Jewish religious life at the time of Continue Reading