What is the meaning of "Meshukadim"?
Rashi: It means that either the goblets or the balls and the flowers 1 had patterns engraved on them.
Rashbam, Targum Onkelos and Targum Yonasan: It refers to almond-shaped engravings on the goblets. 2
What is the significance of the goblets, the knobs and the flowers that adorned the Menorah?
R. Bachye: With reference to 25:31:3.2:2 - the twenty-two goblets 1 represent the twent-two letters of the Torah, the twenty-two parts of the world and the twenty-two parts of the human body, 2 the round nobs, the world of the angels, the goblets per se, the world of the Galgalim (the celestial spheres) and the flowers, the panet ? world 3 - to teach us that through the lens of the twenty-two letters of the Torah, man can reach an understanding of the three parts of existence.
