“The beams of our houses are cedars, and our panels are cypresses” (Song of Songs 1:17). “The beams of our houses are cedars,” Rabbi Menaḥama [said] in the name of Rabbi Berekhya: The stones upon which Jacob our patriarch slept became like a bed and a duvet beneath him. What growth sprouted from it? “The beams of our houses are cedars.”307These stones became the foundation for Solomon’s Temple, which was constructed with the wood of cedar and cypress trees. Another matter, “the beams of our houses are cedars,” these are the righteous men and righteous women, the prophets and prophetesses, who descended from him.