The Israelites must camp, each man by his banner, by the insignias of their fathers’ houses. They must camp at a distance around the Tent of Meeting.
Numbers 2:2
Both the Jewish people and the Torah play an integral role in channeling G-d’s beneficence into the world. The Torah is the instrument through which G-d’s blessings flow, but the Jewish people are the ones who activate and use this vessel to accomplish the goal.
G-d therefore had the people – His newly formed army, organized to combat the materiality of the world – take their formation around the Tent of Meeting, i.e., the Tabernacle, the innermost chamber of which housed the two Tablets of the Covenant, i.e., the Torah.
By studying the Torah and obeying the commandments it contains, we “activate” the Torah, using it as G-d’s instrument to remake the world into His home and bestow infinite goodness upon it.
Daily Wisdom 3