The mannah in the desert represents the internal gift of creative power each of us is granted.
The central character of the mannah is that it is gifted to the people by YHWH. It is that flow which has the character of a gift precisely like the stock of land is granted to the people as a gift.
The issue in the mannah episode is not melakha, it is rather the abundance that needs to be managed through the institution of lechem mishna, where lechem does not mean only 'bread' but more like 'food' or 'sustenance'.
ChZL mistakenly read the episode to be about melakha, and so end up creating this peculiar melakha of transportation from public to private domains, except when there's an eruv. Lechem mishna, on the other hand, is about sheviit, not about Shabbat.
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