<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>RMB:</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">When people design a building, if they aren't being symmetric, they put<br>most of the aesthetics in the facade. The fanciest columns, nice doors,<br>window frames, etc...<br><br>So it struck me when being maavir sedra that the adanim on the walls<br>are silver, but the ones on the pillars in front were copper.</div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>It's a trope. See Tanhuma BaMidbar 3:1<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.sefaria.org/Midrash_Tanchuma%2C_Bamidbar.3?ven=Townsend_1989_translation_of_Midrash_Tanhuma,_S._Buber_Recension,_edited_and_supplemented_by_R._Francis_Nataf&vhe=Midrash_Tanchuma_--_Torat_Emet&lang=bi">https://www.sefaria.org/Midrash_Tanchuma%2C_Bamidbar.3?ven=Townsend_1989_translation_of_Midrash_Tanhuma,_S._Buber_Recension,_edited_and_supplemented_by_R._Francis_Nataf&vhe=Midrash_Tanchuma_--_Torat_Emet&lang=bi</a></div><div><br></div><div>David Riceman<br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPad</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></body></html>