1ke is correct. Jesus had lived as a Jew and a man, and now He had just died as a Jew and a man. God was now not just in a covenant with one group and living in a tent with them. He was now one of us, hiding nothing from the Jews or even the Gentiles, and yet still God as well as man.
The covenant with Israel was not a contract.
I cannot tell you how important that is. A covenant was a joining of families, as in a marriage or adoption. The same format was sometimes used in treaties between two equal tribes or countries, or as a treaty of peace where a king announced unilaterally that the weaker side were now his kids or his tribe, who had to obey him or else.
All covenacts in the ancient Mideast included covenant curses that would fall upon the breaker of the new family bond and the covenant promises made. God’s covenant was often broken by Israel and Judah and the Jewish people, but never by God. (Which is good, because God was also the enforcer of covenant curses. And everything including God ceasing to exist would be bad.)
The whole point of Jesus’ death was that He took Israel’ s covenant curses, and the whole human race’s consequences of sin, upon Himself. He redeemed us, as the closest male kin was supposed to do. The covenant was not broken but strengthened, as God did several times in the OT. It was amended to include adopted Gentiles in the family, and to make both Jews and Gentiles (if baptized) children of God, instead of just part of His adopted tribe.
Scott Hahn has a huge academic book on Mideastern covenants and the OT/NT. See if a library near you has it. Very informative.
From a symbolic point of view, though, the veil is often identified with Jesus’ human body. Like the veil on the Holy of Holies, or in a church tabernacle, the fact that Jesus had a living breathing human body tended to veil His power and Godhood from people. When He died and all nature was convulsed, suddenly people could see something of what was really going on, at least on other levels of Jesus’ existence. Jesus would rise again in His real body, but now it would not be much of a veil anymore. We would all know He was true God and true man, and we would see His power close up from then on.
There is an old tradition that the Virgin Mary helped weave the Holy of Holies veil, and in the East people like to talk about her womb as the loom on which the Holy Spirit wove Jesus. There is a lot of depth in these topics.
