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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.