The Day the Demons Left the World and the Tabernacle Was Raised

[5] Another interpretation: "On the day that Moses finished [setting up the Tabernacle]" (ibid.) -- it is written "bride" [reading kallot, "finished," as kallat, "bride"]: on the day the bride entered the bridal canopy. Rabbi Eleazar and Rabbi Samuel bar Nahmani. Rabbi Eleazar says: "On the day that Moses finished," on the day that his setting-ups were completed. It is taught: every single day Moses would set up the Tabernacle, and every single morning he would offer its offerings upon it and dismantle it, but on the eighth day he set it up and did not dismantle it. Rabbi Zeira said: from here that a nighttime setting-up is invalid for daytime service. Rabbi Samuel bar Nahmani said: even on the eighth day he set it up and dismantled it. From where do we know of dismantlings? As Rabbi Zeira said: "On the day that Moses finished," on the day that his setting-ups were completed. Rabbi Eleazar and Rabbi Yohanan. Rabbi Eleazar said: "On the day that Moses finished," on the day that the harmful spirits ceased from the world [reading kallot, "finished," as "ceased"]. And what is the reason? "No evil shall befall you, [and the rest]" (Psalms 91:10) -- from the hour that the harmful spirits ceased from the world. Rabbi Yohanan said: why should I learn from another place? Let us learn from its own place: "The LORD bless you and keep you" (Numbers 6:24) -- "and keep you" from the harmful spirits. Rabbi Yohanan and Rabbi Simeon ben Lakish. Rabbi Yohanan said: "On the day that Moses finished," on the day that enmity ceased from the world, for until the Tabernacle was set up there was enmity and jealousy and rivalry and strife and quarreling in the world, but once the Tabernacle was set up there was placed love and affection and friendship and righteousness and peace in the world. And what is the reason? "I will hear what God will speak, [and the rest]" (Psalms 85:9). Resh Lakish said: why should I learn from another place? Let us learn from its own place: "And give you peace" (Numbers 6:26). "To set up the Tabernacle" (Numbers 7:1) -- Rabbi Joshua in the name of Rabbi Simeon ben Yohai: it is not written here "to set up a Tabernacle" but "to set up the Tabernacle." What was set up with it? The world was set up with it, for until the Tabernacle was set up the world was trembling; once the Tabernacle was set up the world was made firm.