כִּי־אָבִ֣י וְאִמִּ֣י עֲזָב֑וּנִי וַֽיהוָ֣ה יַֽאַסְפֵֽנִי׃
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Midrash Tehillim
Another thing about the death of Levan. Solomon said (Song of Songs 8:4): "I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you not stir up or awaken love until it pleases." I am sick with love, a love that is not of the bowels or of the head. From what do I suffer? "For I am love-sick" (Hosea 2:7). And not just love, but also death, as it says (Song of Songs 8:6), "For love is strong as death." As it says (Song of Songs 1:3), "Your oils have a pleasing fragrance, your name is like purified oil; therefore the maidens love you." What nation in the world did God tell to "descend to the sea"? Only the Jews, as David said (Psalms 27:10), "When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up." Similarly, Nebuchadnezzar said (Daniel 3:15), "And who is the god that will deliver you out of my hands?" And it is written (Daniel 3:16), "We will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up." But to deny God, Nebuchadnezzar and the dog are the same. They even have the same fate as the frogs, as it says (Exodus 8:3), "And the river shall swarm with frogs, and they shall go up and come into your house and into your bedchamber and onto your bed and into the houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens and into your kneading bowls." And even if God does not save us, we will not abandon Him. What did Nebuchadnezzar say when they came out of the furnace? "Nebuchadnezzar answered and said, 'Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent His angel and delivered His servants who trusted in Him and set aside the king's command and yielded up their bodies rather than serve and worship any god except their own God'" (Daniel 3:28). They did not give themselves up in order to be saved, but in order to be burned. Why "For love is strong as death" (Song of Songs 8:6)? A song to be sung over the death of Levan.
Vayikra Rabbah
Another matter, “when a woman conceives” – that is what is written: “I was generated in iniquity (Psalms 51:7). Rabbi Aḥa said: Even if one would be the most pious of the pious, it is impossible that he will not have one aspect of iniquity.16When engaging in marital relations, even those whose intent is to bear a child also intend to act, at least to some degree, for their own pleasure, similar to one who engages in sinful sexual activity (Maharzu). David said before the Holy One blessed be He: ‘Master of the universe, did my father Yishai intend to produce me; was his intention not for his pleasure? Know that it is so, for after they have fulfilled their needs, this one turns his face to here and that one turns her face to there, and you insert each and every drop that is in him.’17You ensure that the semen fertilizes the ovum. That is what David said: “For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the Lord will take me” (Psalms 27:10).
“In sin my mother conceived me” (Psalms 51:7). Rabbi Ḥiyya bar Abba said: A woman conceives only after her menstrual period and proximate to it,18Shortly after becoming pure from her menstrual impurity. The word sin [ḥet] is understood to mean purification [ḥitui], as in Leviticus 14:52 (see Nidda 31b). especially if it is a male. That is what is written: “When a woman conceives and bears a male child.”
“In sin my mother conceived me” (Psalms 51:7). Rabbi Ḥiyya bar Abba said: A woman conceives only after her menstrual period and proximate to it,18Shortly after becoming pure from her menstrual impurity. The word sin [ḥet] is understood to mean purification [ḥitui], as in Leviticus 14:52 (see Nidda 31b). especially if it is a male. That is what is written: “When a woman conceives and bears a male child.”