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 The Talmud tells a story. Rabbi Tarphon was ill and his very important friends, Rabbi Akiva, Rabban Gamliel and others, came to visit. They met his mother at the door crying. She pleaded with the Tzaddikim to “please pray for her son Tarphon - he is such a good son.” She proceeded to tell them how once she was walking with her son Tarphon and her sandal slipped away. Tarphon immediately kneeled before his mother, putting his hand under each of her feet as she walked, so that she would not feel the pain of the stones and the twigs. Rabbi Akiva upon hearing this story declared, “Tarphon has not even reached half of the obligation of a son to a mother!”
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The Mishkan which the Jews built in the desert as well as the Temple of Solomon and the Second Temple in Jerusalem were not intended as ends in themselves but rather to be the facilitators, the means to the ultimate – closeness to Hashem and holiness. We see throughout the words of the later prophets of Israel a constant warning theme not to confuse the means – the Temple – with the end goal of sanctity and a holy life. 
