Musar for Menachot 57:16
שתי פרשיות שבמזוזה מעכבות זו את זו ואפילו כתב אחד מעכבן: פשיטא
It was taught: R'Jose B'Judah says, An ark of fire and a table of fire and a candlestick of fire came down from heaven; and these Moses saw and reproduced, as it is written, And see that thou make them after their pattern, which is being shown thee in the mount.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ex. XXV, 40.');"><sup>19</sup></span> Will you then say the same [of the tabernacle], for it is written, And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which hath been shown thee in the mount!<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. XXVI, 30.');"><sup>20</sup></span>
Shenei Luchot HaBerit
The מנורה, candlestick in the Tabernacle alluded to all this. Rekanati comments on the מנורה in the following words: "The wisdom concealed in the knobs, flowers and cups which formed part of the candlestick is very exalted and inaccessible. This is why our sages (Menachot 29) described Moses as having had difficulty understanding the way the candlestick was to be constructed. G–d showed him a model made of fire (based on Numbers 8,4 which states: זה מעשה המנורה). The candlestick consisted of six arms, three on either side of the centre-shaft. The lamps on top of the six arms all faced in the direction of the centre-shaft. This was an allusion to the overall unity of the concepts they represented, though each of the seven lamps represented its own concept of holiness and had its own holy site. Moses could not understand how these two apparently contradictory concepts functioned." Thus far the Rekanati.
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