Schir haSchirim 5:16 Kommentar: Rashi

[The words of] his palate are sweet. His words are pleasant.

This is my beloved. This is the likeness of my beloved, and this is the likeness of my friend, and because of all these [attributes] I have become sick for his love. The allegorical meaning, regarding the Holy One, Blessed Is He, is as follows:

My beloved is pure white. And white, [anxious] to whiten my iniquities. [He is] clear and white, when He appeared at Sinai, He appeared as an old man, teaching instructions, and similarly, when He sits in judgment, “His garment was white as snow, and the hair of His head like clean wool.”⁵⁰Doniyeil 7:9.

And ruddy. To exact punishment from His enemies, as the matter is stated, “Why is Your clothing red?”⁵¹Yeshayahu 63:2.

Surrounded by myriads. Many armies⁵²I.e., angels, as it is written “a thousand thousands served Him, and myriad myriads stood before Him,” in Daniyeil 7:10. (Metzudas Dovid) surround Him.

His locks hang. Upon every point [=קוֹץ are heaps [=תִּלִּים and heaps of laws.⁵⁵See Maseches Eruvin 21b.

His head is [like] finest gold. The beginning of His words shone like finest gold, and similarly it says, “The introduction of Your words illuminates.”⁵³Tehillim 119:130. He began, “I am Adonoy your God.”⁵⁴Shemos 20:2. He showed them first that He has the right of sovereignty over them, and He then issued His decrees upon them.

They are raven-black. Because it [the Torah] was written before Him in black fire on white fire.⁵⁶See Rashi Devarim 33:2. Another explanation, “His locks hang,” when He appeared on the sea, He appeared like a young man mightily waging war.

His eyes are like doves upon brooks of water. Like doves, whose eyes gaze toward their windows, so His eyes [gaze] upon the synagogues and study halls, for over there are the sources of Torah, which is compared to water.⁵⁷See Maseches Bava Kama 17a.

Bathed in milk. When they look into the judgment, they clarify the law truthfully, to justify the just, to give him what he deserves, and to condemn the guilty, to repay his [evil] way upon his head.