Komentarz do Pieśń nad pieśniami 8:12

My vineyard is before me. On the Day of Judgement, the Holy One, Blessed Is He, will bring them to judgement, and He will say, “My vineyard, even though I delivered it into your hands, it is Mine, and before Me is all that you seized for yourselves, of its fruit, and it is not hidden from Me what you collected from them.” And they will reply—

I have my very own vineyard: I will bring them forth from exile and they will be under My supervision as in the beginning.

The thousand are yours Shlomo. “The thousand silver pieces that we collected from them, we will return everything to You.” And two hundred

You may have the thousand, O Solomon!: Solomon here possesses a secular meaning, referring to the House of David. What is intimated here is that the days of the Messiah will last a thousand years, this being the sixth millennium of the world’s existence, which will extend for six thousand years.

for those who guard its fruit. “And we will add much more of our own, and we will give it to them, to their leaders and their sages,” as the matter is stated, “In place of the copper I will bring gold.”¹⁹Yeshayahu 60:17.

Two hundred years out of this millennium belong to those who guard its fruit: to those meriting the reward of the study of Torah and the observance of its commandments who had died previously and had yearned for the coming of the Messianic consummation and the resurrection of the dead. That is to say that the resurrection of the dead will occur two hundred years after the redemption. Thus in the sixth millennium, two hundred years before the resurrection of the dead, redemption and salvation will be revealed.

For those who guard its fruit. These are the Torah scholars, and those payments are for the Torah scholars, as it is stated, “but to those who sit before Adonoy belong its merchandise,”²⁰Ibid. 23:18. and the hire of Tzor. And it can also be explained, “and two hundred for those who guard its fruit,” according to the law of a person who derives benefit from consecrated property, that he must pay the principal and a fifth. We too will pay, for, “Yisroel is holy to Adonoy, the first of His produce,”²¹Yirmiyahu 2:3. the principal and a fifth, i.e., a fifth of the principal, and two hundred is a fifth of a thousand.