The Crown of the Tabernacle and the Four Fires on the Mountain

This is what Scripture says: "Go forth and behold, daughters of Zion" (Song of Songs 3:11), the children marked out for Him by circumcision, by the shaving, and by fringes. "On King Solomon," the King to whom peace belongs. "With the crown with which his mother crowned him." Rabbi Yitzhak said: we searched all of Scripture and did not find that Bathsheba made a crown for her son Solomon. Rather, this is the Tent of Meeting, which is crowned with blue, purple, and scarlet. Rabbi Shimon of Sikhnin said in the name of Rabbi Levi: when the Holy One, blessed be He, said to Moses, "Make Me a sanctuary," he might have brought four poles and stretched the Tabernacle over them. Rather, it teaches that the Holy One, blessed be He, showed Moses above a red fire, a green fire, a black fire, and a white fire, and said to him, "Make Me a sanctuary." Moses said before the Holy One, blessed be He: Master of the worlds, from where do I have red fire, green fire, black fire, white fire? He said to him: "after their pattern that you are shown on the mountain." Rabbi Berechiah said in the name of Rabbi: a parable of a king who appeared to a member of his household in a garment of white pearls and said, "Make me one like this." He said, "My lord the king, where do I get such a garment of pearls?" He said, "You with your materials and I with My glory." So the Holy One, blessed be He, said to Moses: you make below what is above; I will leave My retinue above and come down and contract My Presence among them below. As above, "seraphim standing" (Isaiah 6:2), so below, "acacia wood standing" (Exodus 26:15). As above, stars, so below, clasps. Rabbi Hiyya bar Abba said: this teaches that the golden clasps in the Tabernacle looked like stars fixed in the firmament. "On the day of his wedding" (Song of Songs 3:11), this is the Tent of Meeting; "and on the day of the gladness of his heart," this is the building of the Eternal House.