In the list of items included in the mishkan there is, of course: the ark, the golden incense altar, the menorah, the "bread of faces/surfaces" table, the wash basin, and the sacrificial altar. As far as I can tell, each was used either every single day (the golden incense altar, the menorah, the bread table, the wash basin, and the sacrificial altar) or once a year (the ark, if you can consider it used on Yom HaKippurim) or irregularly (also the ark, if you consider it "used" when H' desired to speak to Moshe from between the keruvim). And each item, save one, only had one "action" associated with it - the ark (speaking to Moshe from between the keruvim, although I suppose you could add its storage of the tablets was not nothing, but storage isn't much of an action), bread table (had fresh bread loaded once a week), the wash basin (used for cleansing), and the sacrificial altar (used for sacrifices). The very end of this portion, Tetzaveh, comes, however, to make an exception for the incense altar - an exception which I haven't quite processed yet. Which is, to be specific, that although the incense altar was used every single day at the same time the menorah was lit, it was also cleaned and atoned for once a year, on Yom HaKippurim, with the sacrifice's blood.
I'm still trying to process what this potential "exception" may be, and although I have almost nothing to go on yet, my hope is that some Torah-laden sleep or meditation will help me work through it. And if nothing arrives, then perhaps there isn't any spiritual significance to it. But, for now, the fact that this is the only object which is used both once a year and every single day as well as it having two actions done to it is intriguing - and may speak to some sort of exception to the general rule that each of us only has one mission. Is it possible, as the incense altar indicates, to have two totally different ones? And are these missions carried out in totally different ways and at completely different intervals?
Where did you derive the general rule that each of us only have one mission?
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