Midrash Rabbah Vayiqra on Moses Entering the Tabernacle

When the Holy One, blessed is He, said to Moses, 'Make for Me a Tabernacle (Mishkan)', on every single thing Moses would write, 'as YHVH commanded Moses'. The Holy One, blessed is He, said, 'Moses arranged all this honor (kavod) for Me, yet I am inside it and he is still outside'. He called him to enter the innermost chamber of the Tabernacle. Therefore it is stated, 'He called to Moses and YHVH spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting' (Leviticus 1:1)."

-- Midrash Rabbah Vayiqra, 1.7


This is somewhat of a puzzle. Did Moses actually write these words on all the holy vessels, with a marker or something? The Midrash is revealing that the letters of the Holy Language have the power to transform the vibration (which the Midrash calls 'kavod') when written on objects. The vibrational resonances of the holy vessels were not complete upon their building ─ it was only when Moses came through and declared them to be 'as YHVH commanded', in other words, a vibrational witness that they were not just physical objects, but pure patterns and blueprints in the mind of God, and impressed this vibrational signification on each object, that they lit up with the vibrational resonance of divinity, so that then Shekhinah could dwell in the Tabernacle.

Still, this interpretation implies that the actual writing took place. Another interpretation: The holy vessels and furnishings of the Tabernacle were not primarily physical objects, but patterns and blueprints within the divine mind. They existed first as blueprints, and then later as physical objects. But before they even existed as blueprints, they primordially existed as the verbal descriptions as they are written in the Torah. When writing these designs into the Torah, Moses concluded them with the phrase 'as YHVH commanded', thereby serving as a written signification that they were not just paragraphs that Moses came up with on his own, but that they were patterns of thought in the mind of God.
 

Talmud Bavli Shabbat on Converting to be Appointed as Kohen Gadol

"There was an incident involving a certain gentile who was once walking past the rear of a study hall when he heard the voice of the teacher reciting the following verse to his class of students: 'These are the vestments that they shall make: a breastplate and an ephod...' (Exodus 28:4). The gentile stopped and said to the class: 'These lavish garments, what are they for?' The students replied to him: 'They are for the Kohen Gadol'. The gentile said to himself: 'I will go and covert so that they will appoint me as the Kohen Gadol!'

"So the gentile came before Shammai and said to him: 'Convert me on the condition that you have me appointed as Kohen Gadol.' Shammai pushed him aside with the ruler he was holding in his hand. Undeterred, the gentile came before Hillel and presented him with the same request, and Hillel converted him."

-- Talmud Bavli, Shabbat 31a