아가 8:8 해설: Rashi & Ezra ben Solomon

We have a [little] sister. In the earthly abode, who unites, joins and desires to be with us, and she is little and humbles herself more than all the nations, as the matter is stated, “Not because you are more numerous, etc.”¹⁰Devorim 7:7. for they humble themselves.

We have a little sister: The parable refers to Israel in exile, despised and degraded.

A [little] sister. אָחוֹת is] an expression of joining, [as in,] “These are the rends that may not be sewn up completely מִתְאַחִין.”¹¹Maseches Mo’ed Katan 26a.

But she has no breasts. As the matter is stated concerning the exile of Egypt, “[Her] breasts were developed,”¹²Yechezkeil 16:7; connoting the readiness for redemption. when the time of the redemption arrived, but this one, “she has no breasts;” her time has not yet arrived for the time of love. What shall we do for our sister

on the day she is spoken for. When the nations whisper about her to destroy her, as the matter is stated, “Come, let us destroy them from being a nation.”¹³Tehillim 83:5.