Musar for Chagigah 24:5

ר"ל אמר שבעה ואלו הן וילון רקיע שחקים זבול מעון מכון ערבות וילון אינו משמש כלום אלא נכנס שחרית ויוצא ערבית ומחדש בכל יום מעשה בראשית שנאמר (ישעיהו מ, כב) הנוטה כדוק שמים וימתחם כאהל לשבת רקיע שבו חמה ולבנה כוכבים ומזלות קבועין שנאמר (בראשית א, יז) ויתן אותם אלהים ברקיע השמים שחקים שבו רחיים עומדות וטוחנות מן לצדיקים שנאמר (תהלים עח, כג) ויצו שחקים ממעל ודלתי שמים פתח וימטר עליהם מן לאכול וגו'

Reish Lakish said: there are seven, and they are – vilon, rakiyah, shechakim, zevul, maon, machon, aravot. Vilon serves no purpose except that it enters in the morning and goes out in the evening, and renews the works of creation each day as it says “…who stretches out the heaven like a curtain, and He spread them out like a tent to dwell.” (Yeshayahu 40:22) Rakiyah is where the sun, moon, stars and constellations are fixed, as it says “And God placed them in the expanse of the heavens…”(Bereshit 1:17) Shechakim is where the millstones that grind manna for the righteous stand, as it says “And He had commanded the skies from above, and He had opened the portals of heaven. He had rained upon them manna to eat…” (Tehillim 78:23-24)

Shenei Luchot HaBerit

The line 18,7) ,ואל הבקר רץ אברהם) may be understood as parallel to the heavenly meat that the angels are reported as having fried for אדם הראשון, as reported in Sanhedrin 59. Abraham prepared the bread but did not serve it, since the time for manna which would be ground for the righteous in the heavenly region called שחקים was not yet ripe. Since Adam, however, had already been the recipient of meat from the heavenly regions before he sinned, Abraham saw no reason not to offer meat to these guests from heaven. The bread he prepared assumed a sacred character, seeing Abraham had been feeding the poor at all times, and the reason his descendants were found worthy to feed on heavenly bread was because of their ancestor Abraham's mercy. Unfortunately, the Israelites sinned when they made derogatory comments about the manna, describing it as לחם הקלקל, "bread that is lacking in substance" (Numbers 21,5). This heavenly bread will only appear again in the future that we have spoken of. The reason that

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