פירוש על ישעיהו 5:1

I will now sing for my beloved The prophet says: “I will now sing for my beloved and in his place and as his messenger. [The word לִידִידִי would usually mean, ‘to my beloved.’] Similar to (Exodus 14: 4): “The Lord will wage war for you (לָכֶם), for you [not ‘to you’].”

נא Now. נא is always identical in meaning with עתה now.¹The identity of נא and עתה is often mentioned by our author, as if he thereby wished emphatically to exclude the meaning of I pray thee; compare Talmud Babli, Berachoth, p. 9, אין נא אלא ל׳ בקשה, the word נא means always ‘I pray thee,’ and Rashi on Gen. 19:18.

the song of my beloved about his vineyard This is the song of my beloved that he sang for his vineyard, about his vineyard, as (Genesis 26:7): “And the people of the place asked about his wife (לְאִשְׁתּוֹ), about his wife [not ‘to his wife’].”

לידידי Concerning²A.V., To. my well-beloved; comp. אמרי לי Say of me (Gen. 20:13).

a vineyard in a fertile corner in a corner that produces fat fruit, like good oil.

לכרמו Touching his vineyard.

fertile Heb. בן-שמן [lit. the son of oil, i.e.,] a corner fit for oil, for olives to produce oil, [like] (I Samuel 20:31) בֶּן-מָוֶת, [lit. a son of death,] fit to die. This is a parable, and at the end of the section, he will explain it.

ידידי My well-beloved. Root tri-literal דודי .(ידד) My beloved. Root bi-literal (דוד). ³I. E. calls the verb ע״ו biliteral, since the ו is never sounded. Compare Moznaim, sub voce השנײם, and Zahoth, on the biliteral verbs.

(This is Odom Horishon)

בקרן בן שמן In Keren Ben Shamen. A beautiful spot among the vineyards of Jerusalem. According to some, בקרן On a hill. בן שמן Fruitful; comp. שָׁמֵן fat (30:23), לשׁד הַשָֽׁמֶן fat oil (Num. 11:8);⁴According to this opinion שָֽׁמֶן here and in Num. 11:8 has the same meaning as שָׁמֵֽן 30:23, fat, although having the accent on the first syllable, and in the second Segol instead of Zero. I. E. in the Commentary on Num. (11:8) rejects this explanation. and this explanation is not incorrect.

(This is Hakodosh Boruch Hu)

(In Gan Eden)