Gr"a on Shir Hashirim (1:17)
The Mishkan was a place of the gathering of the hearts of Klal Yisrael. A person's body has to go here and there and be involved in daily pursuits but the heart can remain pure. A person's desires do not have to be held captive by the pulls of the world and the heart of a person is the Mishkan within the individual. The Mishkan is the place where all the hearts come together. It is a manifistation in a physical sense of the purity of heart. It is a place which rises above the tumah of the world where one connects to a place of pure holiness.
The Sforno (25:9) לדבר עמך ולקבל תפלת ועבודת ישראל, לא כמו שהיה הענין קודם העגל, כאמרו ״בכל המקום וכו׳ אבוא אליך״. The Sforno goes לשיטתו in a few places that the need for a Msihkan was established only after the חטא העגל. And he adds the point of the Mishkan is a place to daven to Hashem. כי ביתי בית תפלה יקרא לכל העמים, the Mishkan was a place of prayer, where one can pour out their heart before Hashem.
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