Midrash Rabbah Vayiqra on the Eight Character Traits of Moses

"Any Torah scholar who lacks knowledge (Da'at), an animal carcass is better than he. Know that this is so. Go forth and learn from Moses, the father of wisdom, the father of the prophets, who took Israel out of Egypt, and through whom numerous miracles were performed in Egypt, and awe-inspiring deeds at the Sea of Reeds, who ascended to the heavens above and brought down the Torah from heaven, and who was the one who concerned himself with the work of constructing the Tabernacle. Yet, he did not enter the innermost chamber of the Tabernacle until God called him, as it is stated, 'He called to Moses and God spoke to him' (Leviticus 1:1)."

-- Midrash Rabbah, Leviticus 1.15


FATHER OF WISDOM : Chesed
FATHER OF PROPHETS : Hod
OUT OF EGYPT : Malkhut
NUMEROUS MIRACLES : Gevurah
AWE-INSPIRING DEEDS: Netzach
ASCENDED TO THE HEAVENS : Yesod
TORAH FROM HEAVEN : Tif'eret
TABERNACLE : Keter, Chokhmah, Binah

Talmud Bavli Kereitot on the Preparation of the Anointing Oil

"This was the method used in preparing the anointing oil that Moses made in the wilderness: He would boil the hin of olive oil together with the roots of the spices - the words of Rabbi Yehudah. Rabbi Yose said to him: But there is not enough oil to even smear the roots with the olive oil, let alone boil the roots in it! Rather, how does one proceed? First they brought the spice roots and soaked them in water, then Moses removed the roots from the water and he poured oil on them until they were covered with a layer of olive oil, and the oil absorbed the fragrance of the spices. Moses then quickly removed the oil from the bowl and wiped off the oil still clinging to the roots, and deposited it all into a flask."

-- Talmud Bavli, Kereitot 5a

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 Menachot on The Tagin (Crownlets) of the Hebrew Letters

"Rav Yehudah said in the name of Rav: When Moses ascended to the Heavenly Heights, he found the Holy One, Blessed be He, as He was sitting and attaching crowns to some of the letters of the Torah.  Moses said before Him, 'Master of the Universe, who is holding You back from giving the Torah as it is?'  God said to him, 'There is one man who is destined to exist at the end of many generations, Akiva ben Yosef is his name, and it is he who will expound upon each and ever point heaps and heaps of halachot (oral laws)'."

-- Talmud Bavli, Menachot 29b

Torah on Revelation to Moses - Face to Face, Mouth to Mouth

"And there was no other prophet who arose in Israel like Moshe, whom YHVH knew 'face to face' (panim el panim)."

-- Devarim 34:10

"With him I speak 'mouth to mouth' (peh el peh); in a vision and not in riddles, and he beholds the image of YHVH."

-- Bemidbar 12:8

 rחידה = iddle

Midrash Rabbah Beresheet on the Ascent and Descent of Shekhinah

"Originally, the place of the Shekhinah was in the lower regions. When Adam sinned it ascended to the first heaven; when Cain sinned it ascended to the second heaven; in the generation of Enoch it ascended to the third; in the generation of the Flood to the fourth; in the generation of the Tower of Babel to the fifth; the men of Sodom caused it to depart to the sixth; and the Egyptians in the time of Abraham caused it to depart to the seventh. In contradistinction, seven righteous men arose and made it descend. Abraham brought it down to the sixth, Isaac to the fifth, Jacob to the fourth, Levi to the third, Kohath to the second, Amram to the first, and Moses caused it to come down from above to below on earth."

-- Midrash Rabbah, Beresheet 19.7