THESE ARE THE ACCOUNTS OF THE TABERNACLE, EVEN THE TABERNACLE OF THE TESTIMONY, AS THEY WERE RENDERED ACCORDING TO THE COMMANDMENT OF MOSES, ETC. R. Hiya, in this connection, quoted the verse: “All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full” (Eccles. 1, 7). ‘Esoterically speaking’, he said, ‘all the rivers here allude to the sacred brooks and springs which, when filled, pour forth to supply the great ocean. This in turn, when so filled, flows over and affords drink to all the “beasts of the field”.
These are the lower Chariot group, for, after the ocean has drawn in all the waters it lets them out towards one side, namely, towards the lower Holy Chariots, giving them drink. Now, these are all numbered and noted by name, as we read: “He calleth them all by name” (Isa. 40, 26). Similarly, “These are the accounts of the tabernacle, even the tabernacle of the testimony”.’