“I have come to my garden, my sister, my bride.” Said Rabbi Shmuel bar Nachman: When the Almighty created the world, He yearned to have a dwelling place below, just as He has one Above... Moses came and brought it [the Divine Presence] down to earth... When? When the Tabernacle was constructed.”
cREaTiON aND ThE TaBERNaclE
When learning the account of the construction of the Tabernacle, we find a clear connection between it and the account of Creation in Genesis. The sages enumerate a long list of parallel phrases used in both. One of the most pronounced is the conclusion of both accounts. The account of Creation ends with the words,
“God saw all that He had made, and it was very good... The heavens and the earth were completed... God blessed the seventh day....”
And at the end of the construction of the Tabernacle,
“All the work of the Tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, was completed.... Moses saw that they had indeed done all the work exactly as God had commanded, and Moses blessed them.”
