“Craft for you two silver trumpets; hammered, you shall craft them; they shall be for you for summoning the congregation, and for causing the camps to travel” (Numbers 10:2). “Craft for you two silver trumpets” – this is what the verse said: “Lift your heads, gates” (Psalms 24:7). When Solomon sought to take the Ark into the Temple, he said: “Lift your heads, gates; raise yourselves infinite portals” (Psalms 24:7), as the portals were depressed.
And he said: “Raise yourselves, infinite portals, so the King of glory may enter” (Psalms 24:7). The gates said: “Who is this, the King of glory?” (Psalms 24:10). Immediately, the gates sought to descend upon him and to crush his head, had he not said: “The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory, Selah” (Psalms 24:10), and he also said: “The Lord, strong and mighty; the Lord, mighty in battle” (Psalms 24:8).
“Lift your heads, gates” (Psalms 24:9) – he said to them: ‘Arise, as the King of glory is upon you.’ Immediately, they accorded Him honor, raised themselves, and the Ark entered. The Holy One blessed be He said to them: ‘You accorded Me honor; as you exist, when I destroy My Temple, no person will dominate you.’ Know that all the Temple vessels were exiled, as it is stated: “The Lord delivered Yehoyakim king of Judah into his hand with some of the vessels of the House of God” (Daniel 1:2), but the Temple gates were interred in their place, as it is stated: “Its gates sank into the ground” (Lamentations 2:9).
“The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory, Selah” – as he accords of his glory to those who fear Him. How so? He is called elohim, and he called Moses elohim: “I have made you elohim to Pharaoh” (Exodus 7:1). He revives the dead, and accorded of His glory to Elijah, and he revived the dead, as it is stated: “Elijah said: See, your son lives” (I Kings 17:23).
And the messianic king, he will don His garment, as it is stated: “You bestow splendor and glory upon him” (Psalms 21:6). What is written? “God ascends with a blast, the Lord with the sound of a shofar” (Psalms 47:6). The Holy One blessed be He said to Moses: ‘I have made you a king, as it is stated: “He became king in Yeshurun” (Deuteronomy 33:5).
Just as a king, when he goes out, they sound the shofar before him, you, too, “craft for you two silver trumpets.” When you assemble Israel, they [the trumpet blowers] shall sound them and they [Israel] will assemble, as it is stated: “They shall sound them, and the entire congregation will assemble to you”’ (Numbers 10:3). That is why: “Craft for you.”