Komentaryo sa Awit ng mga Awit 2:10: Rashi & Ezra ben Solomon

Spoke. עָנָה is] an expression of answering and an expression of a loud cry, The following is the precedent for them all, “And the Levi’im are to respond [...in a loud voice].”¹⁹Devarim 27:14.

Arise, my darling: To move from her place and go before the congregation of Israel. And such is the meaning of “Let me see your face” [Cant. 2:14]. These verses are a parable concerning this, as our sages said: “‘The Lord God has returned with you from captivity and taken you back in love’ [Deut. 30:3]. The verse does not state ‘God will restore you from captivity’ but rather ‘God has returned.’“⁷⁵b. Megillah 29a. This teaches that the shekhinah returned with Israel from exile. And so too: “I set my heart by the highway, the road by which you traveled” [Jer. 31:21]. The received text⁷⁶The Masoretic text as written, without the note for proper reading preserved in the margin. is “the road by which I traveled.” So too where Micah [4:10] is read as “So now you must leave the city and dwell in the country,” the received text is “I will dwell in the country.”⁷⁷All these readings hint at shekhinah’s participation in Israel’s exile.

And said to me. Through Moshe.

Rise up. “I will bring you up from the affliction of Egypt.”²⁰Shemos 3:17.