Kommentar zu Schir haSchirim 6:5: Raschi, Rambam, Ibn Esra & mehr

Turn your eyes away from me. Like a young man whose betrothed is dear and pleasing to him, and her eyes are comely, and he says to her, “Turn away your eyes from me, for when I see you, my heart becomes haughty and proud, and my spirit becomes arrogant, and I cannot resist.”

Your hair is like a flock of goats. The text begins to relate the praises of the shekhinah, her hair, eyes, and brow: “Your brow behind your veil [gleams] like a pomegranate split open” [Cant. 6:6]. “Hedged around with lilies” [Cant. 7:3]: She encompasses the six cosmic boundaries and is sealed by them all. Thus the verse states “There are sixty queens …” [Cant. 6:8].¹⁶⁰“Lilies” [shoshanim] is derived from “six” [shesh]. Each of the six intermediate or “directional” sefirot, multiplied by ten for the fact that the sefirot all contain one another, gives us the “sixty queens.”

Made me haughty. They made my heart haughty, as in, “And their pride וְרָהְבָּם is toil and pain,”¹²Tehillim 90:10. [and as in,] “They are haughty רַהַב but idle,”¹³Yeshayahu 30:7. asoajier in O.F. The allegorical meaning is as follows: The Holy One, Blessed Is He, said, “In this Beis Hamikdosh, it is impossible to restore to you the Ark, the Ark cover, and the cherubim, which excessively endeared you to Me in the first Beis Hamikdosh, to show you great affection, until you betrayed Me.”