A person serves the Creator through both intention with holy thought (which elevates the Divine Presence) and through action (which elevates the person), and the righteous person speaks to others in a way that can elevate them to holiness, as demonstrated by the example of Reish Lakish who only spoke with those capable of being elevated, and this is why God commanded Moses to speak to the Israelites after the sin of the golden calf since they are the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob who could be elevated through his speech to cleave to God.
וראה ועשה כתבניתם כו' (שמות כה, מ). פירש רש"י מגיד שנתקשה משה במעשה המנורה עד שהראה לו הקדוש ברוך הוא. ויש להבין, הלא גם בשאר כלי המשכן כתיב ככל אשר אני מראה אותך את תבנית המשכן כו'. ועוד גוף הדבר למה נתקשה משה במעשה המנורה. ונראה, כשכל העולמות מסתכלים בהבורא יתברך בבהירות עליונות אשר למעלה מכל העולמות אז מחמת גודל בהירות הזה הם ביראה ופחד עד שהם מתבטלים במציאות ואין להם שום שמחה כלל מחמת היראה ופחד שיש להם עד שהם בטלים במציאות ועיקר השמחה הוא כשהם חוזרים לעצמותם ובהירות הבורא יתברך מצמצם עצמו ומתלבש עצמו בלבוש בעולמות אז הם בשמחה: וזהו הרמז במאי דאמרינן בגמרא משנכנס אדר מרבין בשמחה, הרמז משנכנס כשהעולמות חוזרים לעצמותם ומתלבשים עצמם בשפע מהבורא ברוך הוא, כי מלת אדר הוא לשון לבוש מלשון אדרת אליהו. מרבין בשמחה, אז הוא עיקר השמחה אבל קודם לזה בעת הסתכלותם אז הם ביראה עד שהם בטלים במציאות. וראיה על זה כל הניסים אשר נעשו, דהיינו קריעת ים סוף ושאר הניסים היו חוץ להטבע כל עיקר וזה הנס אשר נעשה באדר בהמן נעשה במעשה הטבע, כי הבורא יתברך עשה לנו נס גדול כזה בהטבע שמתחלה אהב אחשורוש להמן ואחר כך אהב את אסתר, כי החודש הזה אדר רומז על התלבשות השפע בעולמות שהעולמות חוזרים לעצמותם ולכך הנס אשר בחודש הזה נראה מלובש בהטבע. ועל בחינה הזאת הצירוף של זה החודש עיר"ה ולשרק"ה בנ"י אתונ"ו (בראשית מט, יא) השני ההי"ן, רומז על התלבשות השפע בעולמות. ויו"ד וי"ו, רומז על הסתכלותם בבהירות הבורא יתברך שמו. ובזה יבואר הנ"ל, כי איך אפשר להשיג בהשגה בהירות העליון אשר לא יצמצם עדיין בעולמות אך על ידי התלהבות אשר יש לו לאדם לדבק בהבורא יתברך שמו על ידי התלהבות ההוא ישיג בהירות העליון אשר עדיין לא נתלבש כלל בהעולמות אשר מזה בא החיות על כל העולמות כדכתיב (משלי טז, טו) באור פני מלך חיים. והנה המנורה הוא רומז על השפע אשר עדיין לא נתלבש בעולמות. וזה הרמז נתקשה משה וגו', הרמז היה קשה לו איך לדבק ולהשיג הבהירות העליון. וזה הרמז שהראה לו הקדוש ברוך הוא המנורה של אש, הרמז על ידי התלהבות ישיג זאת וזהו של אש אבל שאר מלאכת המשכן רומזים על השפע אשר התלבש בעולמות ובוודאי לא היה קשה לו להשיג ודו"ק היטב:
Exodus 25,40.“and take a good look and follow the patterns for them that have been shown to you.” Rashi explains these words as referring to the fact that G’d, while Moses was on the Mountain, had to give him a visual lesson in how the menorah would look when completed, as Moses had had difficulty in constructing for himself a mental image of it. Why did Rashi feel that he had to give this exegesis when he did not do so when the Torah described other parts of the Tabernacle to be constructed also accompanied by the instruction ככל אשר אני מראה אותך, “in accordance with all that I show you?” Furthermore, the entire premise that Moses would have had difficulty making a mental picture of what the completed menorah would look like is difficult to understand. In order to understand this, it seems that we must realize that when the various “creatures,” or phenomena, that constitute the various parts of G’d’s universe look at their Creator and the brilliance that is beyond their ability to endure, they are so filled with awe that they have completely excluded any other feeling, attribute, they are capable of under normal circumstances. It is only when the Creator draws around His essence the veils that enable His creatures to look at Him without being harmed, that they can once more consciously experience such feelings as שמחה, joy, and any of the other attributes. This idea has been hinted at when the Talmud in Taanit 29 stated that משנכנס אדר מרבים בשמחה, normally translated as: “once the month of Adar has begun we experience an additional measure of joy in our lives.” The word אדר, is a short form of the word: אדרת, “cloak,” or mantle, a garment that envelops the wearer, a garment that the prophet Elijah is reported as having worn regularly. (Compare Kings I 19,19, Kings II 2,8, Kings I 19,13) The Talmud means that prior to the beginning of this month when the Jews tried to look at G’d, they were consumed by awe, as G’d had not draped sufficient protective “clothing” around His essence to enable those who worship Him to entertain feelings other than awe and fear. One of the supports for such an interpretation is presumably the fact that all the miracles G’d performed for the Jewish people during that time, in the lifetime of Mordechai and Esther, were covert rather than overt miracles, i.e. G’d practiced הסתר פנים, a benevolent type of “hiding” His face, so that His creatures would not have to experience too much fear when turning to Him. The miracles performed at that time were in contrast to those performed when G’d split the sea at the time of the Exodus, using supernatural phenomena in doing so. In the Purim episode, not a single supernatural element was part of the chain of events that resulted in the salvation of the Jewish people. [It seems clear to this editor that the author chose this approach to his exegesis as this portion is read annually around the time of Purim. Ed.] An additional reason may be that around this time, nature that had denuded itself and presented itself to us as awesome during the winter months, once again bedecks itself with foliage, arousing new hope and joy in the hearts of the people who have just experienced a harsh winter. Quoting Genesis 49,11 where Yaakov blesses his son Yehudah, and zeroing in on the words: עירה ולשרקה, the author sees in the apparently extraneous letters ה at the end of the word עירה and שרקה, a mystical meaning based on the concept of צירוף אותיות, the ability to divine the deeper meaning of why certain letters have been combined, [an art that according to our sages enabled Betzalel, the master-builder of the Tabernacle to carry out his task, Ed]. The use of the two letters ה where they do not appear to be needed, is an allusion to the abundance of G’d’s largesse for His creatures in the universe, whereas the letters י and ו allude to looking at the overwhelming brilliance of light experienced when looking at the Creator. These four letters, of course, are the letters forming the tetragram of the holy name of G’d, י-ה-ו-ה. The system has been explained further by Shaar Hayichud vehaemunah in the writings of Tanya, (Rabbi Shneer Zalman of Ladii). [Many of my readers are familiar with a mystical poem appearing before the recital of לכה דודי commencing with the line אנא בכח, where we find the respective first letters of each line printed separately at the end of that line. This is one of the best known examples of the system of צירוף אותיות having found its way into prayer books even of the Ashkenazi (Charedi) community which normally refrains from including passages that the average worshipper cannot understand. The reader may also be interested to know that this is the reason why in most Ashkenazi communities the entire portion of the Friday night service known as kabbalat Shabbat, and commencing either with the saying of לכו נרננה or the preparatory saying individually of the entire scroll of Song of Songs, was for hundreds of years resisted; even when and where accepted, the chazan recites it on the platform from which the Torah is read, to remind the congregation that this was not part of the original Friday night service, Ed.]