Four Things Called Inheritance and the Temple as God's Handiwork

Four things are called an inheritance. Israel are called an inheritance, as it is said (Deuteronomy 9:29), "And they are Your people and Your inheritance." The Land of Israel is called an inheritance, as it is said, "in the land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance." The Temple is called an inheritance, as it is said, "on the mountain of Your inheritance." The Torah is called an inheritance, as it is said (Numbers 21:19), "and from Mattanah to Nahaliel." The Holy One, blessed be He, said: Let Israel, who are called an inheritance, come to the Land, which is called an inheritance, and build the Temple, which is called an inheritance, by the merit of the Torah, which is called an inheritance. "The place for Your dwelling": this is one of the matters in which the throne below is aligned opposite the throne above. And so it says (Psalms 11:4), "The LORD is in His holy Temple, the LORD's throne is in heaven." And it says, "I have surely built You a house of habitation, a place for Your dwelling forever." "You have made, O LORD": the Temple is beloved before the Omnipresent, for when the Holy One, blessed be He, created His world, He created it only by an utterance, as it is said (Psalms 33:6), "By the word of the LORD the heavens were made"; but when He built the Temple, it was, as it were, a labor before Him, as it is said, "You have made, O LORD." Woe to the nations of the world, what do they hear with their ears! Behold, the Temple is called His handiwork, and yet they rose up and destroyed it. They said (Psalms 137:7), "Raze it, raze it, down to its foundation in it." Concerning this, what does it say (Jeremiah 25:30)? "The LORD roars from on high, and roars mightily over His habitation"; "and His habitation they laid waste."