מוצאי שבת פרשת פקודי

The Magan David symbolizes how we give all to Hashem (Ohr Chozer) and he gives us back (Ohr Yashar).

It’s called a Magen David because David was Hod she’behod - the ultimate “I have nothing, it’s all you”. And therefore he was zoche to Malchus. So he was the ultimate symbol of this.

The Egyptians tried to take all divine powers down for themselves, hence the shape of the pyramids.

The Hamantash, called also the “Ear of Haman” symbolizes also how Amalek also tries to take everything for themselves. We bake the hamantash so we can flip it around (ve’nahafoch hu). Through the mesiras nefesh of Mordechai, giving all to Hashem, he flipped the hamantash around - and was then zoche to get all the shefa and bracha of the original shape. So there’s no difference between Arur Haman and Baruch Mordechai in the end, they are both the same shape. The only difference is in the way we get there. But at the gmar hatikkun, which Purim symbolizes, we will get it all back anyway :-)

It says about Amalek, write it in a sefer and “put it in the ear of Yehoshua”. The Beis Aharon explains that ear represents the high level where it is clear there is no bad, bad is shown to really be good (Briya? Binah?) and that’s what we need to do to destroy Amalek. I’d like to add to that (1) Maybe that’s also the idea of not seeing the difference between Arur and Baruch (2) Maybe also the idea of “Haman’s Ear”

The Kohel Gadol was also bechinas Hod (Moshe being Netzach - the mashpiah, and Aharon being Hod, the mekabel - who has nothing of his own). The two gold boxes on the Kohel Gadol’s shoulders that held the Avnei Hashoham formed a triangle of gold with the tzitz. Gold symbolizes fear of heaven, and through that, we merit that Hashem sends down his shefa to us. Two onyx stones were fixed in settings of gold on the High Priest's shoulders; one on the right, and one on the left. The names of the tribes of Israel were engraved upon these two stones. The bottom middle stone of the breastplate was also onyx, and that formed an upside-down triangle, symbolizing how we give it all to Hashem. The stone was black, which symbolizes Malchus - all our retzonos we give away to Him. It was also the stone of Yosef, Yesod. And the name of the stone, Shoham, is the same letters as Moshe. For Moshe was the epitome of giving it all away, and through that, he got it all back from the tzitz, down to the shoulders in gold. Together, forming a Magen David.

האם יש קשר?

משה - כי מן המים משתיהו

ומשרתו יהושע בן נון נער לא ימיש מתוך האוהל

משכן

שם שם לו חוק ומשפט ושם נסהו

משכן = 410

עדות = 410 + 70 פנים לתורה

The 4 colors of the linens used for the bigadim of the Kohen Gadol:

תכלת DARK BLUE - מלכות

ארגמן MIX - תפארת

תולעת שני RED - גבורה

שש WHITE - חסד

But it’s interesting that at the root, all these materials were white (linen and wool). It’s only when we add color that they get their names and attributes. This symbolizes that at the root, all is white - Olam Chesed Yibaneh. The midos are only like colors added on, so Hashem can be manhig the world through different midos.

Meleches Hamishkan is mentioned 7 times from Terumah until the end of Sefer Shemos. Perhaps keneged the 7 midos, the 7 days of the week. After all, the Mishkan was kineged maaseh shamayim va’aretz. And on the 7th day “Hukam” and Hashem’s glory filled the mishkan - that’s Shabbos and that’s Malchus.

Interesting that the Mizbeach Haktores wasn’t mentioned in Terumah, until after all the bigdei kehunah… Perhaps because without the Kohen, the inyan of ketores is meaningless. It requires the connection (בחד קטורא אתקטרנא).