Commentaire sur Le Cantique des Cantiques 3:10
עַמּוּדָיו֙ עָ֣שָׂה כֶ֔סֶף רְפִידָת֣וֹ זָהָ֔ב מֶרְכָּב֖וֹ אַרְגָּמָ֑ן תּוֹכוֹ֙ רָצ֣וּף אַהֲבָ֔ה מִבְּנ֖וֹת יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃
Les colonnes en sont d’argent, la garniture d’or, le siège de pourpre; l’intérieur en a été paré avec amour par les filles de Jérusalem.
Rashi on Song of Songs
Its covering. His resting place and His dwelling were on the Ark cover, which is gold.11See Shemos 25:17, 22.
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Ezra ben Solomon on Song of Songs
He made its posts of silver: This is the “right hand” of the Holy One, blessed be He, which the Book of Creation [2:1] designates as the “scale of merit.”
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Rashi on Song of Songs
Its curtain of purple wool. This is the dividing curtain,12Separating the “Holy Place” from the “Holy of Holies,” See Shemos 26:31,33. which hangs and “rides” on poles from pillar to pillar.
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Ezra ben Solomon on Song of Songs
Its back of gold: This is the left hand, designated “the scale of guilt.”90Ms. reading is quite different here: the right hand is “water from air,” the left is “fire.” The central pillar is “truth, justice, peace, seal of the structure, the seal of God.”
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Rashi on Song of Songs
Its interior bedecked. It was arranged with a floor [displaying] love;13Alternatively, “its interior filled with burning love.” In Yeshayahu 6:6, “רצפה” means “burning coal.” (Tzror Hamor) the Ark and its cover, cherubim and Tablets.
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Ezra ben Solomon on Song of Songs
Its seat of purple wool: This is the central pillar designated as the central “tongue of the statute” mediating between them. So our Sages say: “‘Upon this semblance of a throne, there was the semblance of a human form’ [Ezek. 1:26]. It was designated as purple,”91In Numbers Rabbah 12:4? for just as purple wool is woven out of many types of colors, so too the central pillar receives from this one and that. And so it states: “like the appearance of the bow in the cloud was the appearance of the likeness of the Glory of God” [Ezek. 1:28].
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Rashi on Song of Songs
From the daughters of Yerusholayim. These are the [Bnei] Yisroel, who fear and are wholehearted toward the Holy One, Blessed Is He.
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Ezra ben Solomon on Song of Songs
Within, it was decked with love: This is the shekhinah.
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Ezra ben Solomon on Song of Songs
By the maidens of Jerusalem: The Central Column. This is the meaning of “a man’s wife,” concerning which the prophet said (of those men who brought home foreign wives): “Has not one done this out of excess of spirit? What does one seek but godly seed?” [Mal. 2:15].92The obscure passage seems to mean that shekhinah is wife to the Central Column, source of godly seed; so too should Israel, husbands and wives, bear godly seed.
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