Comentario sobre Cantar de los Cantares 4:9

You captured my heart. You have drawn My heart to you.

You have ravished my heart — my bride: Your extraordinary attractiveness has stopped my heart. This [ravishing of the heart] is the thing and its opposite, similar to “they shall ash the altar” [Num. 4:13].⁹⁹Ravishing excites and stops the heart at once. “Ashing” the altar means removing the ashes. For desire and inclination and their union are drawn to her lofty beauty.

With but one of your eyes. Of the many good characteristics that you possess, if you had only one, I would love you dearly, and all the more so with all of them. And similarly, “with one necklace of your necklaces,” with but one of the chains of your necklaces. These are the adornments of commandments through which the [Bnei] Yisroel are distinguished. Another explanation of “בְּאַחַד עֲנָק,” with one of your forefathers, [the one] referred to as, “was one,”⁵⁸Yechezkeil 33:24. the one singled out, and this is Avrohom, who is called עֲנָק [=a giant], “the greatest man among the giants בַּעֲנָקִים.”⁵⁹Yehoshua 14:15.

With one of your eyes: This refers to the generation of Solomon, a perfect one, all righteous, including the Sanhedrin of sages who know the wisdom of the proper times. They are called “eyes” for they are the light of the world, as in “if it was in error, hidden from the eyes of the community” [Num. 15:24]. It says “one” because that generation was singular; there was never another like it, either earlier or later.

With one coil of your necklace: This is an allusion to the king, the glory of his people. Because he foresaw through the holy spirit of prophecy that in the future the kingdom would be split asunder into two states after his demise, he specified “with one coil of your necklace,” meaning “while the kingdom is yet one.”

The Glory begins to expound upon the pleasantness of her love, the scent of her ointments and garments, the honey of her lips.