Cantico dei cantici 1:3 Commento: Rashi & Ezra ben Solomon

Like the fragrance of good oils. A good name is referred to as, “good oil.”¹²Alternatively, “good oils” symbolize Torah and mitzvos due to their pleasant fragrance. (Sefer Duda’im)

Your oils are of fine aroma: He calls the effulgent flow from the Glory, the gateway to the entities, “aroma.” From there it increases and flows down into the seventy branches that surround the central column. Counting it, there are seventy-one. Because of this, the text says: “from the kisses of his mouth”: from that very light.⁴²Each of the branches is “kissed” or nourished directly from His mouth, from tiferet or the central column.

Like the fragrance of good oils. That those dwelling at the ends of the earth smelled, [i.e.,] those who heard of Your good reputation when You performed awesome deeds in Egypt.