And you shall make upright beams for the tabernacle out of acacia wood. (ibid. 26:15) In order to understand how this applies to all times,⁴ briefly, “beams” (keresh) refers to the human being.⁵ For the letters of the word keresh are the letters of the word kesher (a “knot”). This alludes to man, who binds together and unites all the worlds. Degel Machane Ephraim, Terumah

footnotes: ⁴ The Baal Shem Tov taught that every passage of the Torah is eternal, and applies to all people at all times. ⁵ On the verse: “Ten cubits shall be the length of a beam” (Exodus 26:16), the Tikunei Zohar states (p. 65a): “Ten cubits is the length of a man.” This refers to the spiritual structure of a human being, which corresponds to the ten Sefiros.