ויהי ביום כלות משה, כלת כתיב, ביום שנכנסת כלה לחופה.
(Numb. 7:1:) SO IT CAME TO PASS ON THE DAY THAT MOSES HAD FINISHED (kallot). Kallat (which means "bride of") is <what is really> written.124Tanh., Numb. 2:26, end; PRK 5:1; see especially Numb. R. 12:8, end, which greatly expands this interpretation. <Thus the passage would allude> to the day that a bride (kallah) enters the wedding canopy.125In other words, Israel (or possibly Torah) is the bride of the Holy One, and the Tabernacle, her wedding canopy.
ויהי ביום כלות משה, כלת כתיב, ביום שנכנסת כלה לחופה.
(Numb. 7:1:) SO IT CAME TO PASS ON THE DAY THAT MOSES HAD FINISHED (kallot). Kallat (which means "bride of") is <what is really> written.124Tanh., Numb. 2:26, end; PRK 5:1; see especially Numb. R. 12:8, end, which greatly expands this interpretation. <Thus the passage would allude> to the day that a bride (kallah) enters the wedding canopy.125In other words, Israel (or possibly Torah) is the bride of the Holy One, and the Tabernacle, her wedding canopy.