Rabbi Chaim Dovid Green Learn to Thrive When Moshe arrived at
the Tent of Meeting to speak with Him, he heard the voice
speaking to him from atop the cover that was upon the Ark of the
Testimony, from between the two Cherubim, and He spoke to him.
Hashem spoke to Moshe saying, "Speak to Aaron and say to him:
When you kindle the lamps, towards the face of the Menorah shall
the seven lamps cast light." (Bamidbar 8:1) And Hashem spoke to
Moshe saying, "Make for yourself two silver trumpets-make them
(mikshah) hammered out, and they should be yours for the
summoning of the assembly and to cause the camps to journey.
Within a short space we find the activation of three different
instruments that were important features in the daily life of
the Nation of Israel; the Cherubim, the Menorah, and the
Trumpets. As different as they are in their form and their
function, they all have something unique in common. They were to
be made "miksha"-hammered from a solid piece of metal. In the
case of the Cherubim and the Menorah