They shall make a Sanctuary for Me, and I will dwell in their midst [rest My Shechina among them].
§ It is taught in a baraita: Rabbi Shimon ben Yoḥai says: Come and see how beloved the Jewish people are before the Holy One. As every place they were exiled, the Shechinah went with them. They were exiled to Egypt, and the Shechinah went with them, as it is stated: “Did I reveal myself to the house of your father when they were in Egypt?” (I Samuel 2:27). They were exiled to Babylonia, and the Shechinah went with them, as it is stated: “For your sake I have sent to Babylonia” (Isaiah 43:14). So too, when, in the future, they will be redeemed, the Shechinah will be with them, as it is stated: “Then the God will return with your captivity” (Deuteronomy 30:3). It does not state: God will bring back, i.e., God will cause the Jewish people to return, but rather it says: “God will return,” which teaches that the Holy One will return together with them from among the various exiles.
Zohar 1:175b
Now the Shechinah never departed from the tent of Leah or the tent of Rachel...The truth is that during the lives of Rachel and Leah the Shechinah hovered over them
Zohar 2:100b
The Shekhinah is sometimes called Daughter and sometimes Sister and here she is called Mother and she is indeed all of these.
Zohar 1:133a
Every single day Rivkah saw the radiance of the Shekhinah in her dwelling and prayed there
“Rabbi Shimon ben Pazzi notes a contradiction: ‘And God made the two great lights; as it reads ‘The large light, and the small light.’
The moon said to the Holy One, Blessed Be He, ‘Master of the Universe, How can two kings share one crown?’
He said to her, ‘Go and diminish yourself!’
She said to him: ‘Master of the universe, because I said a logical thing before you, I should diminish myself?’
He said to her, ‘Go and you will rule by day and by night’. She said to him, ‘What is the greatness in that, How does a lamp help in the daytime?’ He said to her: ‘Go! Israel will count through you the days and the years.’ She said to him, ‘Day is the primary unit of time, and I can’t be used to count for days, as it says “And let them be for signs of the seasons and days and years”.’ He said, “Go! And great people will be called by your name: Yaakov the Katan, Shmuel the Katan, David the Katan.”’ She saw this and was still not happy at the time. The Holy One said, “I will bring an atonement on Me for I have diminished the moon.” And so that is what is meant when Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish said, “What is the difference in how the New Moon offering is written, “A he-goat on the new moon, FOR THE LORD?’ Because the Holy One is saying, ‘Let this he-goat be an atonement FOR ME, for the diminishment of the moon.”