Tafsiran yang Mengutip untuk Ayub 28:20

LECHEM PANIM’ (SHOWBREAD). “It is called lechem panim [which literally means ‘bread of faces’] because it had ‘faces’ [surfaces] looking in both directions towards the sides of the House [Tabernacle or Sanctuary]. The loaf was set lengthwise across the breadth of the table with its sides standing up exactly in a line with the edge of the table.” This is the language of Rashi. This conforms with the language of the Mishnah:¹⁵⁸Menachoth 96a. “Ben Zoma says: lechem panim — [it is so called] because it is to have surfaces” [looking in both directions]. But all this is in accordance with the opinion of the Sage¹⁵⁹Rabbi Chanina (ibid., 94 b). who says: “How did they make the showbread? Like a case broken open.”¹⁶⁰“With its cover and two of its opposite sides removed, thus leaving the bread the two sides [facing each other] and the bottom underneath” (Rashi ibid.). The figure thus is: ⌴. But according to the Sage¹⁶¹Rabbi Yochanan (ibid). who says that it was shaped “like a rocking boat,”¹⁶²The sides of which narrowed downwards until there was but a fingerbreadth at the bottom and it had no covering on top (Rashi ibid.). The figure is: V. then it could not have been [called lechem panim because of the parallel surfaces looking in both directions, as it had none]! And Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra wrote that it is called lechem panim because it is before Me always.¹⁶³The word panim meaning “face” is thus explained by l’phanai tamid (before Me always): it is lechem panim literally: “bread of the face” because it is before Me always.
By way of the Truth, [the mystic lore of the Cabala], when you will understand the word l’phanai (before Me)¹⁶⁴Literally: “to My face.” you will understand its name [i.e., why it is called “the bread of panim”] and its secret, for because of that [the table] was placed on the north side [of the Tabernacle],¹⁶⁵Further, 26:35. seeing that the blessing of the Eternal maketh rich,¹⁶⁶Proverbs 10:22. similar to what is said, in every place where I cause My name to be mentioned I will come unto thee and bless thee.¹⁶⁷Above, 20:24. I have already alluded to this.¹⁶⁸Ibid., 20:3. — So explained in Bachya.
Where shall be found the wisdom embodied in the candelabrum, its cups and knops and flowers, seeing that it is so hidden from the eyes of all living!¹⁶⁹See Job 28:20-21. But as to the reason for its being of beaten work, with the six branches coming out of the seventh, and upon them the lamp of G-d¹⁷⁰I Samuel 3:3. and all [six lamps] to give light over against it¹⁷¹Further, Verse 37. — all this you can understand from our words that we have written in another place.¹⁷²I have not been able to identify that “other place.” The basic concept though is explained by Abusaula that it is an allusion to the lower six emanations all being one beaten work (Verse 36), symbolizing a perfect Unity, with the lamp of G-d, alluding to the Supreme One, above them. This is the intent of the saying of the Sages¹⁷³Menachoth 29a. that Moses found difficulty with the candelabrum.¹⁷⁴Meaning, that he found it perplexing to understand the secret of its cups and knops and flowers, for it is extremely hidden from the eyes of all living (Abusaula).

“Whence [me-ayin] can Wisdom be found?” [Job 28:12]. This Wisdom itself derives from Nought [ayin], the primordial Nought, no mortal knowing its value [‘erkah] which here means its order and array. That is to say, no one knows how to order the primal existences that are situated within her or how to know its characteristics. As it is written: “Who like Me can announce, can foretell it—and match Me thereby? Even as I told the future to an ancient people …” [Isa. 44:7]. “[For Wisdom] can not be found in the land of the living” [Job 28:13]. Even the angels do not know it. Thus the text states figuratively: “The deep says: ‘It is not in me.’ The sea says: ‘I do not have it’” [Job 28:14]. Similarly we find “But whence does wisdom come?” [Job 28:20] and “it is hidden from the eyes of all of the living” [Job 28:21], from them whose lives are eternal. “Concealed from all the fowl of heaven”—the ministering angels.