“All the wise hearted among those who performed the labor crafted the Tabernacle: ten tapestries of spun linen and sky blue, purple, and scarlet wool, with artfully-crafted cherubs, they made them” (Exodus 36:8). “All the wise hearted…crafted,” that is what is written: “Many waters cannot extinguish love” (Song of Songs 8:7). “Many waters,” these are the idolaters, as it is written: “[Woe, the uproar of many nations,] like the roar of seas will they roar” (Isaiah 17:12).
Were all the idolaters to assemble to void the love between the Holy One blessed be He and Israel, they would be unable to do so. That is, “many waters cannot extinguish love,” as it is stated: “And I loved Jacob” (Malachi 1:2). “And rivers cannot wash it away” (Song of Songs 8:7), these are the Chaldeans, as it is stated: “The mighty and abundant waters of the River upon them, the king of Assyria” (Isaiah 8:7).1The Chaldeans were a part of the Assyrian Empire.
When the prophets speak of “the River” it is a reference to the Euphrates. “Were a man to give all the wealth of his house for love, they would scorn him” (Song of Songs 8:7), but My children crafted a Sanctuary of tapestries for Me, and I descended and dwelled in their midst, as it is stated: “Moses was unable to enter the Tent of Meeting…and the glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle” (Exodus 40:35).