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.
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