Komentaryo sa Awit ng mga Awit 2:17: Tze'enah Ure'enah, Rashi & Ezra ben Solomon

“When [the day] blows gently” [2:17]. The Tanhuma writes that this verse also applies to Abraham. It says concerning him, “as the day grew hot” [Genesis, 18:1]. The Holy One created a great heat in the world so that no guests would come.²¹Tanhuma, Vayera, 3. “At givat haaraloth”²²Lit., the mount of foreskins. [Joshua, 5:3]. This means that Abraham made a tall pile in his house of the foreskins from the many people that he had circumcised. He piled them, one on top of the other, in his house and a stream of blood flowed from these foreskins. The Holy One said to the angels: let us go to Abraham’s house to visit the sick. The angels said: Lord of the Universe, it stinks and it is quite repulsive in Abraham’s house, because of the foreskins. God said: in my eyes the smell of the foreskins is much better than the pleasant odors of all the incense, as the verse says, “I will betake me to the mount of myrrh” [4:6].²³Yalkut Shimoni, Song of Songs, Remez, 986.

Until the sun spreads. This refers to the preceding verse, “My beloved is mine, and I am his,”³⁹Above Verse 16. until the time that the iniquity caused the sun to darken me in the heat of the day, and the heat intensified.⁴⁰See Above 1:5-7.

Until the day blows gently: When the sin of the Amorites will attain its consummation and their power and might be removed.

And the shadows flee. We sinned with the [golden] calf; we sinned with the spies, “and the shadows flee,” [i.e.,] the merits that protected us [disappeared because] we broke off His yoke.

You turned away my beloved. I caused him to leave me on mountains which were far away from me.

Distant. An expression of separation and distance.⁴¹Alternatively, הרי בתר means split mountain and is referring to the Mount of Olives which will be split as per the prophecy of Zecharyah [14:4]. Thus, the meaning of בתר is similar to “he split [ויבתר] them up in the center,” in Bereishis 15:10.