Citazione Commento su I Cronache 28:12

A Kabbalistic approach: the words עצי שטים עומדים parallel the words שרפים עומדים ממעל לו “Seraphim stood in attendance on Him” (Isaiah 6,2). The word עומדים was mentioned as an allusion to the celestial forces. There is nothing in the Tabernacle which does not somehow reflect concepts and beings of the celestial realms. To quote just a few verses from the Bible in which this thought has been expressed, even though obliquely at times. 1) (Exodus 25,9) את תבנית המשכן ואת תבנית כל כליו, “the pattern of the Tabernacle and the pattern of all its vessels.” The matching verse is found in Chronicles I 28,19 הכל בכתב מיד ה' עלי השכיל כל מלאכות התבנית, “All this the Lord has made me understand by His hand on me, the works according to all its pattern.” 2) (Chronicles I 28,12) ותבנית כל אשר היה ברוח, “and the pattern of all that he had by the spirit.” The point of all this is that although the Tabernacle, the Temple, and all the holy vessels would be destroyed or lost, we must never believe that the destruction of physical symbols meant that their counterpart in the celestial regions also ceased to exist. Rather, they remain in an upright standing position. This is the thrust of what we have been taught in Sukkah 45 and Yuma 72 that the mystical dimension of the words עצי שטים עומדים is מעמידין את צפוין, שמא תאמר אבד סברן, בטול סכוין, תלמוד לומר עצי שטים עומדים, שעומדים לעולם ולעלמי עולמים’ The meaning of the words: “upright standing acacia wood,” is that these woods lend hope and spiritual fortitude to those who look upon them. If you perchance would think that after all they have now been lost to us and just as they have been lost so has our hope faded, the Torah described them as “standing,” i.e. in the present tense, to reassure you that the concept they represent will endure forever and ever.” The word צפוין in the Talmud there means “the power which is expected of them by those looking at them with hope.” The meaning of the words מעמידין אותו הכוח is תלה גדול בקטן, “that the great was made dependent on the small,” The wood of the shittim trees held the gold overlay in place instead of vice versa.