פירוש על שיר השירים 8:6

Set me as a seal. For the sake of that love, seal me upon Your heart,⁶In the same manner that a seal is affixed on one’s hand and is not removed, so too, set me as a seal upon Your heart. (Metzudas Dovid) so that You do not forget me, and You will see.

Place me like a seal: When we separate during the time of exile, place me like that well known seal.

For love is as strong as death. The extent of my love that I loved You is to me equal to my death, for I am killed for Your sake.⁷My love to You is so strong that I would choose death before relinquishing my love for You. (Metzudas Dovid)

Like the seal upon your arm: Which corresponds to the heart, as our Sages said: “Whence do we know that the Holy One, blessed be He wears phylacteries?”²⁰⁵In Berakhot 6a.

Jealousy is as harsh as the grave. The quarrel that the nations were jealous and quarreled with me because of You. “קִנְאָה” every place [in Scripture] means enprenment in O.F., an expression of conveying feelings to wreak vengeance.

Fire from the flame of God. Coals of a strong fire that comes from the force of the flame of Gehinnom. The cantillation symbol of the zakef gadol, which punctuates “רִשְׁפֵּי” teaches us about the word “אֵשׁ [fire],” that it is connected to “שַׁלְהֶבֶתְיָה,” meaning “fire from the flame of God.”