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אָח֥וֹת לָ֙נוּ֙ קְטַנָּ֔ה וְשָׁדַ֖יִם אֵ֣ין לָ֑הּ מַֽה־נַּעֲשֶׂה֙ לַאֲחֹתֵ֔נוּ בַּיּ֖וֹם שֶׁיְּדֻבַּר־בָּֽהּ׃
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Rashi on Song of Songs
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.
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Ezra ben Solomon on Song of Songs
We have a little sister: The parable refers to Israel in exile, despised and degraded.
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Rashi on Song of Songs
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.
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Ezra ben Solomon on Song of Songs
Whose breasts are not yet formed: They have no place to nurse since they have left the land of life and are separated from the place of Torah. As it is written: “Torah shall go forth from Zion, God’s word from Jerusalem” [Isa. 2:3]. Concerning the exile it is said: “For many days Israel will be bereft of the God of truth and Torah” [II Chron. 15:2].
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Rashi on Song of Songs
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
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Ezra ben Solomon on Song of Songs
What shall we do for our sister when she is spoken for?: What shall we do for them? How shall we sustain them? How to provide them with a future, with hope in their exile?
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Rashi on Song of Songs
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.
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