temple; indeed this is the heart of their liturgical service. For example, in the seventh song we find reference to “the foundation of the holy of holies,” “the supporting columns of the most exalted dwelling,” “tabernacle of the utmost height … the inner shrine”; cf. also Song 13). As scholars have remarked, “we should not miss an important point that is being made somewhat allusively here. It is that it is a spiritual and not a material temple.”6 The idea of the heavenly temple has a considerable