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In addition to being the high point of biblical pastoral poetry, the Song of Songs is also one of the books of the Bible that most pointedly highlights women\u2019s voices and stories. Few, if any, other books have as many lines spoken by women, and it is a rare text that gives women\u2019s and men\u2019s voices almost equal weight in a relationship.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Chapter three highlights both of these phenomena in the same line when the female lover exclaims, \u201cI adjure you, O maidens of Jerusalem\/By gazelles or by hinds of the field\/Do not wake or rouse\/Love until it please!\u201d (3:5).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

One noteworthy aspect of this verse\u2014and similar statements appear in both chapter 2 and chapter 8 as well\u2014is the presence of women\u2019s oaths. When the Bible discusses women\u2019s vows in Numbers 30, they are primarily framed in terms of whether or not men consent to them. An unmarried woman\u2019s father has the power to annul her vow if she still lives in his household, and a husband has the power to annul his wife\u2019s vow; only widowed and divorced women are explicitly mentioned as being able to make a vow that is binding absent a man\u2019s consent. Oaths and vows are treated as two separate categories in rabbinic sources, but it is nevertheless striking that the Song of Songs makes frequent mention of vows for and among the \u201cdaughters of Jerusalem,\u201d who are presumably young, unmarried women who we might expect not to have full agency over their own oaths.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Furthermore, oaths are usually taken in the name of an authoritative figure or body. Elsewhere in the Bible and in rabbinic literature, oaths often invoke God\u2019s name (e.g. Exodus 22:10, Leviticus 19:12, Joshua 6:26). To take an oath in the name of an animal rather than by the name of God is a startling change from what we might expect elsewhere; it elevates the gazelles and hinds to the status of a court or even of divine authority. This is an expression of profound reverence for nature. The Song of Songs is a book that is full of awe and appreciation for the natural world, and for it to imagine women taking vows based on wild animals is to make a bold statement about the role that the natural world can play in our lives. 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What does it mean to seek love? The first two verses of this chapter present two different models to answer that question. Each verse\/model presents a different type of seeking and provides a different insight into love: Verse 1 shows us an inward-looking, reflective seeking; Verse 2 shows us an outward-looking, practiced seeking. Together they demonstrate an active paradigm of love.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Verse 1 opens with the restless female lover waking in the middle of the night: \u201cUpon my couch at night I <\/span>sought<\/strong> the one I love\u2014 I <\/span>sought<\/strong>, but found him not.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Whether you read this verse as her expecting his presence (i.e. he\u2019s usually there, where did he go?), or as her wishing for his presence, the message is the same: his presence (made obvious by his absence) is what she seeks. She is seeking the companionship that is the antidote to loneliness, seeking the physical presence of love. However, she\u2019s doing that seeking alone, in private, looking inward: she understands that love is what she is missing.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In verse 2, since her lover is missing, so she sets out on a mission: \u201cI must rise and roam the town, Through the streets and through the squares; I must <\/span>seek<\/strong> the one I love.\u201d I <\/span>sought<\/strong> but found him not.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This is an outward-looking, public seeking: the love that is sought is outside of her, somewhere in the streets of Jerusalem. She is not alone in her bedroom, she is outside, in the city, in public, encountering various people (the watchmen in verse 3 for example), in her physical pursuit of love. In verse 1 she looked within, figured out <\/span>what<\/span><\/em> she wanted and needed. In verse 2, she looks outward, and sets out in pursuit of making those wants and needs a reality.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The root \u05d1\u05e7\u05e9, <\/span>bakesh<\/span><\/em>, \u201cseek,\u201d which appears throughout Tanakh, always carries a sense of intentionality. Whether it is Joseph seeking his brothers (Genesis 37:15-16), or Saul seeking to take David\u2019s life (1 Samuel 19:2), the activities described by this root are not haphazard or coincidental, they describe doing. So, in verse 1, perhaps what it takes to seek the end of loneliness is the introspection to understand that loneliness. She looks around her and understands what she needs; she doesn\u2019t just feel a feeling, she seeks a resolution to that feeling. And so, in verse 2, the woman isn\u2019t just on the lookout for her lover, hoping he\u2019ll pop by; she\u2019s actively tracking him down. Seeking love is being active, both in reflecting oneself, developing awareness and understanding of one\u2019s feelings, and in the pursuit of love, in acting on that understanding.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cI met the watchmen Who patrol the town. \u2018Have you seen the one I love?\u2019\u201d (3:3)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

To whom is the female speaking in this verse? According to the allegorical reading of the Song, does this verse not suggest that this story includes someone other than Israel and God, meaning, the nations of the world!? And if that is so, does this text not imply that the nations of the world may be in contact with Israel's beloved at times when she is not?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Further, do the words here not suggest that the nations can speak on her behalf, and can understand the depths of her love to the extent that they can communicate her condition to God on her behalf? Finally, without these listeners, would we get the insight and clarity of Israel's thought that is only afforded to us because of their presence?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Our chapter includes the following descriptive verses:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

There is Solomon\u2019s couch, encircled by sixty warriors of the warriors of Israel. All of them trained in warfare, skilled in battle, each with sword on thigh because of terror by night (7-8).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Superficially, this describes Solomon\u2019s palace guard, consisting, as Rashbam wrote, of \u201cwarriors, trained in warfare and each with his sword bound at his side and spears held in hand, [to] guard him at night, as is the custom of kings to be watched over while they sleep.\u201d Ibn Ezra took a distinct view of the guards, identifying their client as the king\u2019s paramour: \u201cSee, even king Solomon is obliged to have many valiant men to guard the object of his love, in his fear that robbers may carry her off by night.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Allegorically, Ibn Ezra wrote, Solomon represents God, his bed is the Land of Israel on which God reposes His Presence, and the 60 warriors stand in for the 60 myriads (600,000) of Israelite soldiers who entered the Land of Israel under Joshua and conquered it.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

However, the venerable Aramaic Targum saw the verse in a very different fashion. Perhaps perplexed by the specificity of the number sixty, which, unlike such numbers as 40 or 70, has no clear symbolic value, the Targum identified it with the 60 letters that make up the priestly blessing (<\/span>birkat kohanim<\/span><\/em>; Numbers 6:24-26).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

When Solomon, King of Israel, built the Lord\u2019s Temple in Jerusalem, God said: How pleasant is this Temple\u2026 and how pleasing are the <\/span>kohanim<\/span><\/em> when they spread out their arms, stand upon their platform (<\/span>dukhan<\/span><\/em>), and bless the people of Israel with the 60 letters that were handed to them by their Master, Moses. That blessing serves them as a tall and stout rampart and through it all the warriors of Israel grow strong and victorious.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\"King Solomon made him an <\/span>apirion<\/em> <\/span>Of wood from Lebanon\"<\/span> (verse 9). The Hebrew word <\/span>apirion<\/em> <\/span>does not appear anywhere else in Tanach. What does it mean? Rashi translates it as a canopy. Because Rashi translates this book as an allegory, he explains that this verse describes the canopy of the tent of meeting that was set in Shiloh before the construction of the Temple. Ibn Ezra translates it as a wedding canopy and also as the Temple that Solomon built. Malbim translates it as a sort of bridal suite that Solomon built for the wedding day.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Metzudat Tzion describes it as a wedding chamber to which the couple would retire following the ceremony. Allegorically, he also connects it to the Temple. Metzudat Tzion pulls the hebrew root p-r-y from the word which connects to \"be fruitful\". He then translates the word to mean the wedding bed that is used by the couple to consummate their marriage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

It's clear that all the commentaries that translate the book literally believe this word refers to some chamber used as part of a wedding ceremony. All those that translate it allegorically see this as a reference to the Temple or the tent of meeting the physical and symbolic home of God and the people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\"I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or by the deer of the fields, do not arouse nor awaken love, until it please.\" (Song of Songs 3:5)<\/p>\r\n


\r\nI swear the bride will show herself tonight,
\r\nWhen least expected; suddenly the bride
\r\nWill be revealed without the need to hide
\r\nBehind a veil or be attired in white.
\r\nI swear we'll see the bride, although our sight
\r\nDeceived us in the past when eyes denied
\r\nThey could perceive how shadows turned aside
\r\nIn honor of the bride and of her light.<\/p>\r\n

The bride will soon be coming, and appear
\r\nBefore the dawn begins its dance, before
\r\nThe sun expels the moon, before we hear
\r\nA rooster crow or donkeys bray; I swear
\r\nThe bride may yet arrive, and though I swore
\r\nThis twice before \u2014 the bride is very near.<\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":95703,"alt":"","title":"sos3-bride","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/sos3-bride.jpg","width":1920,"height":1153,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/sos3-bride-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/sos3-bride-300x180.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":180,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/sos3-bride-768x461.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":461,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/sos3-bride-1024x615.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":615,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/sos3-bride.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":922,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/sos3-bride.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1153,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/sos3-bride-1200x721.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":721,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/sos3-bride-699x420.jpg","home_baner-width":699,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"929 Poetry Corner","tile_main_caption":"The Bride May Yet Arrive Tonight","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Though I swore \/ This twice before \u2014 the bride is very near","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":95703,"alt":"","title":"sos3-bride","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/sos3-bride.jpg","width":1920,"height":1153,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/sos3-bride-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/sos3-bride-300x180.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":180,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/sos3-bride-768x461.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":461,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/sos3-bride-1024x615.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":615,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/sos3-bride.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":922,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/sos3-bride.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1153,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/sos3-bride-1200x721.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":721,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/sos3-bride-699x420.jpg","home_baner-width":699,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_link_for_pay":"0","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Writings","book":"Song of Songs","chapter":"3","chapter_main_number":"793","date":"20280912","wall_id":"793"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":8,"id":"95676","color":"#faeed8","size":"1","name":"A Move Into Secluded Intimacy ","post_title":"A Move Into Secluded Intimacy","slug":"a-move-into-secluded-intimacy","old_id":"95676","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":54356,"post_title":"Robert Alter","slug":"robert-alter","old_id":"54356","first_name":"Robert ","last_name":"Alter","description":"Robert Alter is the Class of 1937 Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967. 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3:4 \u201cI had barely passed on from them when I found him I love so. I held him and did not let go till I brought him to my mother\u2019s house, and to the chamber of her who conceived me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

This translation preserves the literal sense of the Hebrew in poetic parallelism, the standard term (\u201cmother\u201d) is generally used in the first verset, and a substitution--often it is a metaphor or an unusual synonym--is used in the second. The reference to conception here may intimate the sexual act that the young woman has in mind. The figure of the mother often appears in Sumerian love poetry, which could be the distant background of this poem. In many cultures, it is the mother\u2019s role to instruct her daughter about what to do in the act of love, and that may also be a reason for introducing the mother here. Notably, the biblical corpus is dotted with references to the father\u2019s house, which is a fixed social unit, but in the Song only the mother\u2019s house appears.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Another feature of poetic parallelism in the Bible can be observed in the other pair of nouns in this line: quite often, when a spatial term appears in the first verset, the parallel term in the second is a smaller space or an object contained within the space demarcated by the first term. She leads him, then, to the house and then, entering the house, to a chamber within it. This standard procedure of poetic parallelism here indicates a move into secluded intimacy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. Spot the differences<\/em>. The first poem (verses 1-5) describes the maiden\u2019s night. The last one (7-11) describes the royal bed. Note the differences between the two: the maiden who fears nothing in going out to wander around at night to look for her beloved, and the guards find her, as opposed to the 60 armed bodyguards needed to protect the king. The proactive maiden brings her lover to her mother, as opposed to the king whose mother is busy for her son\u2019s wedding. And there\u2019s more.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. The oaths<\/em>. In verse 5, the maiden returns and makes the maidens of Jerusalem swear \u201cDo not wake or rouse Love until it please!\u201d That\u2019s what she did in 2:7 and what she will do in 8:4 (and make a different oath in 5:8). What is the meaning of these oaths?In what ways can the maidens of Jerusalem help or hinder love, or love at all? What does \u201cuntil it please\u201d mean? When will that be? Worth looking at the commentators.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Mi zot, <\/span><\/em>Who is she<\/em>? It\u2019s not clear who the Song is referring to in verse 6, and why now. There are those who associate this \u201cone that comes from the desert\u201d with the Queen of Sheba from the land of \u201cmyrrh and frankincense.\u201d In the chapters to come we shall encounter two more songs who ask <\/span>mi zot<\/span><\/em>, \u201cwho is she?\u201d in 6:10 and 8:5.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. The story between the poems<\/em>. The linkage between the poems expresses a dynamic of connection. In the previous chapter, it\u2019s not clear whether the maiden was inviting the lover or pushing him away, \u201cSet out, my beloved, Swift as a gazelle Or a young stag, For the hills of spices!\u201d (2:16). From the beginning of this chapter we understand that the lover did not take it as an invitation, and now the maiden begins to actively search for him. Only in the next chapter will we hear his voice again.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. An allegory a day<\/em>. The \u201cmaiden\u201d is Israel, in exile, who deals with the surrounding environment that is bent on making her forget her love of God, the lover, and is trying to seduce her to leave him. \u201cI adjure you, O maidens of Jerusalem,\u201d - the nations among whom I am exiled, \u201cDo not wake or rouse Love\u201d - that is, do not take the love I have for God, my lover, and try to lure me away; \u201cuntil it please!\u201d - as long as he continues to love me (Rashi on verse 5).<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","post_main_content_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"Song of Songs 3","tile_main_caption":"Points to Ponder","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Insights and questions for personal reflection and group discussion","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","chapter_info":{"books_group":"Writings","book":"Song of Songs","chapter":"3","chapter_main_number":"793","date":"20280912","wall_id":"793"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":10,"id":"95472","color":"#effaea","size":"1","name":"Sefaria Source Sheets - 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    \u201cA Love Song for Passover?\u201d<\/a> by Melissa Buyer-Witman: Why do we read Shir HaShirim on Pesach?<\/p>\r\n

    \u201cWho Knows One? The Objective of Leil Haseder\u201d<\/a> by Zev Wiener: What are we trying to accomplish through the Seder.<\/p>\r\n

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