Komentarz do Pieśń nad pieśniami 6:12

I did not know. The congregation of Yisroel laments, “I did not know how to be aware of sin, that I should retain my glory and my greatness, and I erred over groundless hatred and controversy, which intensified during the reign of the Chashmonai kings, Horkenus and Aristoblus,²³They were brothers who battled one another for the throne. until one of them brought in the Roman Empire and received the kingship from its hand and became its vassal. Since then, “my soul set me” to be “like chariots,” to let the nobility of other nations ride upon me.

A noble people. עַמִּי נָדִיב means] the same as עַם נָדִיב[=a noble people]. The yud is superfluous like the yud of, “the One Who took up His abode שֹׁכֵן=שֹׁכְנִי in the thornbush,”²⁴Devarim 33:16. [and as in,] “stolen גְּנֻבַת=גְּנֻבְתִי by day,”²⁵Bereishis 31:39. [and as in,] “populous רַבַּת=רַבָּתִי.”²⁶Eichah 1:1.

My soul set me. I myself appointed them over me, as the matter is stated, “and you accustomed them to be officers in charge over you.”²⁷Yeirmiyahu 13:21.