Еврейская мысль к Зехарья 4:14

In addition to this, He apprised them that his prophecy was not received by means of the imaging faculty as was the case with the other prophets. This is the intent of (Ibid 7): "In all of My house, he is trusted." The commentators have interpreted this as referring to a familiar of the household, as it were, who comes and goes as he pleases. But I see in it something different, namely, that the prophecy of Moses was more trustworthy than that of the other prophets, as I shall explain. It is well known that the faculty which deceives man constantly is the imaging faculty, which causes the confusion of one thing with another which has no real existence at all. All of the other prophets prophesied by means of this faculty, seeing things which did not actually exist. We shall illustrate this with one of the prophecies, which shall serve as the rule for the others. Zechariah prophesied, saying (Zechariah 4:2-3): "I looked, and, behold, a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and seven lamps to it, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which were upon the top of it; and two olive trees were by it, one upon the right side of the bowl and the other upon the left." Zechariah was not seeing anything that actually existed. Though he says: "I looked, and, behold, a candlestick," he did not see it at all; but since his prophecy came through the imaging faculty, it seemed to him as if he were, indeed, seeing that vision. The truth of the vision lay [not in what he saw, but] in what was intended by it, the analogue, as it is written (Ibid 11-14): "Then I asked him [the angel]: 'What are these two olive trees…' and he answered: 'These are the two anointed ones.'" Though what was intimated and intended was true, the entire vision was not true, but only imaged. This was not the case, however, with Moses our teacher, may peace be upon him. For, since his prophecy was not received by means of the imaging faculty, nor through parable or riddle, as it is written: "I speak to him mouth to mouth, and manifestly, not in riddles," it follows that: "In all of My house, he is trusted." That is, he is to be believed concerning everything he claims to have seen in My house — for everything is true in itself, exactly as he says he saw it.

There were 11 kaftorim [on the menorah of the Mishkan], parallel to the Torah’s 11 essentials and roots, as [Rabbi Yosef Albo] the author of the Ikkarim wrote (1:15), “Using this method, we find that the essentials and roots are eleven”... And although HaRav Abarbanel, in his book Rosh Emunah, argued against those who identify roots and essentials for Torah since we must believe in the entire Torah, his words have neither root nor essential in this. We have seen the Sages say (Makkot 23b-24a), “David came and established the Torah on ten principles, Isaiah came and established it on six, etc.”
And the flowers [on the menorah of the Mishkan] were nine, parallel to nine true beliefs which every person of Torah should believe, such that one who denies any of them is called a “heretic”...