아가 7:5의 주석

Your neck. The Temple and the altar, which are erect and tall, and the Chamber of Hewn Stone,¹⁸The meeting place for the Sanhedrin. which is also there, made for strength and for a shield, “like an ivory tower.”

Your eyes. Are like pools in Cheshbon, through which water flows, so are your eyes by the gate of the multitudes. Your sages, when they sit at the gates of Yerusholayim, the city of multitudes, and are involved in the calculation חֶשְׁבּוֹן of the seasons and the signs of the constellations, their wisdom and understanding in the eyes of the nations flow like pools of water. Alternatively, “בְּרֵכוֹת בְּחֶשְׁבּוֹן” can be explained as “doves,” and this is the language of the Mishnah, “One who buys the doves of a dovecote, he must let the first brood בְּרִיכָה fly away,”¹⁹See Maseches Beitzah 10a. kovedes in O.F.

Your face is like a tower of Levanon. I cannot explain this אַפֵּךְ to mean a nose, neither with respect to the simple meaning nor in reference to its allegorical meaning, for what praise of beauty is there in a nose that is large and erect as a tower? Therefore, I say that “אַפֵּךְ” means a face, and the reason it is used in the singular form and does not state [the plural form], “אַפַּיִךְ,” is that it speaks of the forehead, which is the main distinguishing feature of the face, as the matter is stated, “The features of their faces testifies against them.”²⁰Yeshayahu 3:9. And you could prove this, because he continuously praises them from bottom to top,²¹See Rashi in verse 2 above. [and] “Your eyes are like pools in Cheshbon,” [was already mentioned,] And so do the nations praise, “and your forehead is strong against”²³A reference to the nose would therefore be out of sequence. the forehead of all who come to harm you and to entice you. Like a tower of Levanon,