Idols in the Holy of Holies?: How to Study Torah - Terumah
What did the Ark in the Holy of Holies look like? The commentaries on the Torah discuss the design of the Ark and its unusual lid upon which were two golden Cherubs.
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It is not a question of not being and being. The fact it takes up no space screams it doesn't exist in time. Seeing how eternity, G-d's loft, exists before the universe was made, thus time, it would seem reasonable that G-d's dwelling place in this heaven would have attributes of the higher heavens.