Komentaryo sa Awit ng mga Awit 7:12: Rashi & Ezra ben Solomon

Come, my beloved, let us go out to the field. Our Rabbis expounded in [Maseches] Eruvin, that the congregation of Yisroel said, “Master of the Universe, do not judge me like dwellers of cities, where there is robbery and immorality, but³²Below, verse 11. like the open village dwellers, who are craftsmen and are occupied in the study of Torah amidst hardship.”³³Maseches Eruvin 21b.

Come my beloved: The shekhinah said to the Glory, after the decree of Israel’s exile was enacted: “Why do you stand afar, and ascend to the uttermost heights?”

Let us lodge in the villages. Let us lodge among the disbelievers [=כּוֹפְרִים. Come and I will show You Eisav’s descendants, upon whom You have lavished prosperity, but who do not believe in You.³⁴Sifsei Chachomim amends Rashi’s text to read...“but let us go out to the field and I will show You Torah scholars who are occupied in the study of Torah amidst hardship.” (Sifsei Chachomim)