Still, there is a lingering question: why was not everything made of gold? It seems appropriate that in the Temple, everything should have been gold, including the sockets and the altar of burnt offering. Why the need for additional materials?
The Temple is meant to unite us—to create a “Union of Israel” where all of Israel would serve God together. First, all the people of Israel, and then “My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”
The silver-like people with an emotional persona are needed. All shades, the entire congregation is needed. People who are still in gestation are needed. The habitual/behavioral persona like copper is likened to the development stage of gestation; the silver-persona, is likened to the suckling phase of life. Gold represents intellect and the stage of intellectual maturity in life. A person who is at this stage is independent.
As we have discussed many times, especially in the teaching of the soul, there are dependent people. Someone at the level of silver, and certainly someone at the level of copper, is dependent. But someone at the level of gold is self-aligned and not dependent on anyone.
The leader who is like gold, dependent on no human is still entirely dependent on God. As we will read in the Torah portion of Vayikra, “When a king sins”—who is a leader? One whom, “Havayah is his God,” or as the sages state, “One who has none above him but Havayah his God.” Every Jew has a spark of the Mashiach, the true leader, and so this king includes everyone from those who are gold-like to those who are copper-like. The letters of “king” (מלך) are the initials of “brain, heart, liver” (מוח לב כבד). All the types are needed in the Tabernacle and all the types are part of the king.
