I Kings 8:27 Jewish Thought: Akeidat Yitzchak

This too is the meaning of Moses’s question quoted in the introduction to this chapter i.e. "can Israel do this?" The question was "how can man construct a dwelling that is to contain G-d?" The question is very similar to the statement by Solomon when dedicating the temple he had built. "heaven and the firmaments are not large enough to contain You." G-d’s reply however, explained to Moses that when viewed from the vantage point we mentioned earlier, any Israelite can both benefit and achieve the purpose for which the tabernacle and its furnishings were intended.

Moses also first climbed the mountain, then descended, paralleling Jacob's dream. The revelations each received were similar, if not in degree, at least in their respective nature. Our sages teach that until the revelation at Mount Sinai, the sphere of the tachtonim, the lower mortal beings were kept separate from the elyonim, the upper immortal beings.