<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><font size="4" class="">“And the Cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, </font><div class=""><font size="4" class="">screening the Cover with their wings, with their faces</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">toward one another; toward the Cover shall be the </font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">faces of the Cherubim.” (Ex. XXV:20).</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">The rabbis ascribe to the Cherubim the appearance of</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">children (Rashi on XXV:18) and their posture as given</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">in the text symbolizes the way in which our children </font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">should be reared and trained. </font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">Their wings must be <i class="">spread out and upward </i>— teaching</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">them their duties <i class="">bein adam laMakom.</i></font></div><div class=""><i class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></i></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">Their faces must be one to another — teaching them their</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">duties <i class="">bein adam lachaveiro</i>.</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">How do they learn these Jewish duties? “…toward the </font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">Cover shall be the faces of the Cherubim" — in other words,</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">by looking into the Ark at its contents; in a word, by studying</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">and absorbing Torah.</font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="26E9360F-E5ED-4B2E-91D1-D87722BED4A7" height="453" width="397" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:3498E398-3D07-4ED4-9528-4FC7EDB61A61" class=""></div></body></html>