The Midrash compares the mishkan to a king who married off his daughter. He felt bad that he cannot be close to her. So he built a hut close to her and said wherever you go I always will be near you. Hashem gave us the Torah. he wants to stay close to it, so commanded us to built a mishkan to be able to be close to us having the Torah. The mishkan is from cedar wood standing firm to remember the Torah and not to sway from it. If we don’t keep the Torah, Hashem escapes from our shul as there is no reason to stay close to us.
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