Komentaryo sa Awit ng mga Awit 2:8: Tze'enah Ure'enah, Rashi & Ezra ben Solomon

“The voice of my beloved” [2:8]. Rabbi Judah said: when Moses Our Teacher came to the Israelites and said to them, the redemption has come to leave the exile of Egypt. The Israelites answered, we are supposed to serve in Egypt for four hundred years and we have only served in Egypt two hundred and ten years. Moses responded, when the Holy One wants to redeem you, he skips over the time and does not look at His calculations of the exile.¹⁹Yalkut Shimoni, Song of Songs, Remez, 986.

The voice of my beloved. The poet returns to the earlier topics, like a person who was brief with his words and later says, “I did not tell you the beginning of these events.” He started by saying, “The king has brought me into his chambers,”¹⁵Above 1:4. but did not tell how He had remembered them in Egypt with an expression of affection. And now he returns and says, “this attraction that I told you about, that my Beloved drew me and I ran after Him, happened as follows: I had despaired any redemption until the completion of the four hundred years that were [fore]told [in the Covenant] Between the Parts,”¹⁶See Bereishis 15:13. and—

Hark! My beloved!: The words of the shekhinah. This was on the twentieth of Iyyar when the cloud arose from the tabernacle of the covenant.⁷³See Numbers 10:11: “In the second year, on the twentieth day of the second month, the cloud lifted from the Tabernacle of the Covenant and the Israelites set out on their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai.”

The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes. Before the end of the appointed time, as one skipping over the mountains and jumping over the hills.¹⁷God, as it were, skipped and jumped over the barriers of time and redeemed the Bnei Yisroel one hundred and ninety years before completion of the prophecy of the four hundred years of bondage.