A mourner is obligated to overturn his bed, so that he sleeps on the underside of it, as bar Kappara taught a baraita that states: God stated: I have placed the likeness of My image [deyokan] within humans, as they were created in My image, and owing to their sins I have overturned it, as when this person died the Divine image in him was removed. Therefore, you must also overturn your beds on account of this.

It was stated: One who stays in an inn does not have to overturn, so they should not say that he is a sorcerer.

(8) He made the laver of copper and its stand of copper, from the mirrors of the women who performed tasks at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting.

(1) במראת הצבאת OF THE MIRRORS OF THE WOMEN CROWDING — The Israelitish women possessed mirrors of copper into which they used to look when they adorned themselves. Even these did they not hesitate to bring as a contribution towards the Tabernacle. Now Moses was about to reject them since they were made to pander to their vanity, but the Holy One, blessed be He, said to him, “Accept them; these are dearer to Me than all the other contributions, because through them the women reared those huge hosts in Egypt!” For when their husbands were tired through the crushing labour they used to bring them food and drink and induced them to eat. Then they would take the mirrors, and each gazed at herself in her mirror together with her husband, saying endearingly to him, “See, I am handsomer than you!” Thus they awakened their husbands’ affection and subsequently became the mothers of many children, at it is said, (Song 8:5) “I awakened thy love under the apple-tree”, (referring to the fields where the men worked). This is what it refers to when it states, מראות הצבאת “the mirrors of the women who reared the hosts (צבאות)” (Midrash Tanchuma, Pekudei 9). And it was for this reason that the laver was made of them (the mirrors) — because it served the purpose of promoting peace between man and wife viz., by giving of its waters to be drunk by a woman whose husband had shown himself jealous of her and who nevertheless had associated with another (cf. Numbers ch. V) thus affording her an opportunity to prove her innocence (cf. Sotah 15b). You may know that the מראות mentioned in the text were really mirrors (and that the word does not mean visions, or appearance, etc.), for it is said, (v. 29) “And the copper of the wave-offering was seventy talents etc. … and therewith he made [the sockets etc.]” — the laver, however, and its base are not mentioned there amongst the articles made from that copper; hence you may learn that the copper of which the laver was made was not a part of the copper of the weave-offering, which is the only copper mentioned as having been contributed by the people. Thus did R. Tanchuma 2:11:9 explain the term מראת הצבאת. And so does Onkelos also render it: במחזית נשיא, and this first word is the Targum translation of מראות, in the sense of mireors in old French, for we find that for the word (Isaiah 3:23) “And the גליונים”, which are mirrors, we have in the Targum the same word מחזיתא.

תרגום עברית

...לִפְנִים הַהֵיכָל הַזֶּה עוֹמֵד מְמֻנֶּה אַחֵר, שֶׁהַמְמֻנֶּה הָאַחֵר הַזֶּה מְעוֹרֵר אֶת הָאָדָם אַחַר כָּךְ לְעוֹרְרָם, שֶׁהֲרֵי הוּא מַתְקִין גּוּפוֹ וּמְסַלְסֵל בִּשְׂעָרוֹ, שֶׁיִּטֹּל בְּיָדוֹ מַרְאָה אַחַת לְהִסְתַּכֵּל בָּהּ, וּמַחֲזִיקָהּ בְּיָדוֹ וּמִסְתַּכֵּל בָּהּ, וְרוֹאֶה אֶת דְּמוּתוֹ בְּאוֹתוֹ מַרְאֶה. וּבָזֶה מְעוֹרֵר אֶת אוֹתָהּ הָרוּחַ לְכֹחַ אַחֵר, שֶׁנִּקְרָא עַסִירְטָ"א, וּמִכָּאן יוֹצְאִים כָּל אוֹתָם שֶׁמַּרְאִים לָאֲנָשִׁים כְּזָבִים בַּחֲלוֹמוֹתֵיהֶם, וְכָל אוֹתָם שֶׁמַּרְאִים דְּבָרִים וְלֹא מִתְקַיְּמִים בָּהֶם, אֶלָּא לְבַלְבֵּל אוֹתָם.