Making Jewlery with Tempek Images

B'H' Do you think making a Choshen Mishpat pendant with the same stones in the order using beads with copper wire hung on a leather or silver necklace would at all encroach on Mishneh torah Beit Bechirah 7:10 about not making replicas ofBeit Hamikdash items? Todah Rabba

Shalom!

Thank you for your question.

There is nothing inherently objectionable about making a “Choshen Mishpat” pendant/jewellery (or a menorah pendant or anything else reminiscent of the Temple utensils, for that matter).

Doing so would not be a violation of the ban in Rambam’s Hilchot Beit Bechirah 7:10 where it says, “A person may not make a house according to the Temple's design, a porch with the design of the Entrance Hall, a courtyard resembling the Temple Courtyard, a table according to the design of the Table for the Showbread, or a lamp in the design of the Menorah. However, one may make a lamp [resembling the Menorah] with five branches or with eight branches [even] with seven branches if it is not made of metal.”

 Le'halcha, Hagaon Harav Fried says that it is not advisable to make such replicas, same too it would be forbidden to take it into the toilet.