פּירוש אויף שיר השירים 5:15

His legs. Are like pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold.

He is as majestic as Lebanon, Stately as the cedars.¹⁵³ There follows a long quotation from Sefer ha-Bahir, Scholem’s sections 64, 67–69. In similar fashion Scripture states: “I am like a leafy cypress; your fruit comes from Me” [Hos. 14:9]. Souls are the fruit of the blessed Holy One. If Rava created a man,¹⁵⁴b. Sanhedrin 65b. The reference is to the primary Talmudic source for the later Golem tradition. he returned it to dust, for it contained no power of the soul.

Pillars of marble. Pillars of marble שַׁיִשׁ=שֵׁשׁ, and a similar word appears in Megillas Esther, “upon silver rods and marble שֵׁשׁ columns.”⁴⁹Esther 1:6. His appearance is as tall as the cedars of the Levanon.

Chosen like the cedars. Chosen among the sons as the cedar among the other trees.