Love and Fear Creates a Mishkan

Love and Fear Creates a Mishkan

It states (Shir Hashirim 3:9-10), המלך לו עשה אפריון ירושלם מבנות אהבה רצוף תוכו ...הלבנון מעצי שלמה , "King Shlomo made himself a Mikdash from the trees of Lebanon... its interior inlaid with love from the daughters of Yerushalayim." The pasuk is asking and wondering how it could be built הלבנון מעצי, from Lebanese trees. How could a physical structure host Hashem?

The pasuk replies, ירושלם מבנות אהבה רצוף תוכו. The Bnos Yerushalayim represent the Jewish nation. The pasuk clarifies that the Jewish nation donated the items with love, and therefore Hashem wanted to be there.