The construction of the Tabernacle in (Exodus 36:1-38) begins with a problem no ancient building project should have had. The people brought too much. Morning after morning, they arrived with gold, silver, linen, and precious materials until the craftsmen themselves told Moses to make it stop.
"The people abound in bringing more than is enough for the service of the work," the wise men reported. Moses had to issue a proclamation through the camp: "Neither man nor woman may make any more work for the holy separation." The Targum renders this scene with a note of astonishment. After centuries of slavery, a people with nothing gave everything until the builders ran out of places to put it.
The Targum then adds its characteristic theological readings to the physical details. The eleven goat-hair curtains were joined in two sets: "five curtains together, corresponding with the five books of the Law; and six curtains together, corresponding with the six orders of the Mishnah (the earliest code of rabbinic law)." The Tabernacle's very structure encoded the future shape of Jewish learning, with the written Torah on one side and the oral tradition on the other.
The middle bar gets its origin story repeated from the instructions in chapter 26: it was made "of the tree which our father Abraham planted in Beira of Sheba, praying there in the Name of the Word of the Lord, the everlasting God." Abraham's prayer-tree, centuries old, was transformed into the structural spine of the sanctuary.
The boards were set "standing up, after the way of their plantation," preserving the orientation each piece of wood held when it was a living tree. The Targum insists on organic continuity. Wood remembered which way it grew. Curtains counted like books. The middle bar recalled the prayers of the first patriarch.
In the Targum's reading, the Tabernacle was not assembled. It was remembered into existence from pieces that already carried sacred history.