מדרש אויף שיר השירים 8:2

“I would lead you, would bring you to my mother's house, that you would teach me; I would give you to drink from the spiced wine, from the juice of my pomegranate” (Song of Songs 8:2).
“I would lead you, would bring you”; “I would lead you” – from the supernal to the earthly.²The midrash is interpreting this verse as being stated by Israel to God. The meaning of this phrase is that Israel would cause God to descend from heaven to earth, which occurred at the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai. “Would bring you to my mother’s house” – this is Sinai. Rabbi Berekhya said: Why is Sinai called “my mother’s house”? It is because Israel became like newborn babies there.³They were forgiven for their sins and became like babies who have never sinned (Yefe Kol). “That you would teach me” mitzvot and good deeds. “I would give you to drink from the spiced wine” – these are the great compendia of baraitot, like the compendium of Rabbi Ḥiyya the Great, the compendium of Rabbi Hoshaya and of bar Kappara, and the teachings of Rabbi Akiva. “From the juice of my pomegranate” – these are the aggadot, which are tasty like a pomegranate. Alternatively, “I would give you to drink from the spiced wine” – this is the Talmud, in which mishnayot are blended like spiced wine. “From the juice of my pomegranate” – these are the vestments of the High Priest, just as it says: “A golden bell and a pomegranate” (Exodus 28:34).⁴These were on the hem of the robe of the High Priest.

In the future to come, the Holy Blessed One will reveal the Torah’s reasoning to Israel. Why the prohibition on marrying two sisters? Why milk and meat? Why swineflesh? Why mixed crops? After He reveals to them the Torah’s reasoning, He will say to the righteous, “Enter the Garden of Eden and eat a feast prepared for you, and drink wine preserved from grapes from the six days of creation!” They say before Him, “Master of the universe! There is no party where the host isn’t found within! But if you want, let Your presence be among us!” Immediately David says before the Holy Blessed One, “Master of the universe! Do good with us and sit with us!” At that time the Holy Blessed One listens to David, as it is said, “Then you will call and the LORD will answer, you will cry out and He will say ‘Here I am!’” (Isaiah 58:9) Immediately, the Holy Blessed One enters with David and all the righteous standing at their seats, and the the Holy Blessed One sits on His glorious throne, and David sits corresponding to Him on a throne prepared for him, as it is said, “And his throne like the sun beside Me.” (Psalm 89:37) And all the righteous sit on their chairs and eat and rejoice and drink around three cups of pressed wine, as it is said, “I will have you drink of the spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.” (Song of Songs 8:2) ^{Alternative reading} Alternative reading: "And Gabriel lifts two chairs, one for the Holy Blessed One and one for David, as it is said, 'And his throne like the sun beside Me.' And they eat and drink three cups..." See Tanna d'Vei Eliyahu Zutta, chapter 20. And they mix for them the cup of blessing, and the cup of blessing is two hundred and twenty-one log, as it is said, “You will set a table before me facing my enemies; You rubbed my head with oil; my cup overflows.” (Psalm 23:5) “Overflows” in gematria is thus. After they eat, someone says, “Who will bless?” Someone says to Abraham, “You, take it up and bless, for you are the father of the universe!” He says to them, “I cannot bless, for from me came a seed that would aggrieve the Holy Blessed One!” Someone says to Isaac, “You, take it up and bless, for you were bound upon the back of the altar!” He says to them, “I cannot bless, for from me came a seed that would destroy the Holy Blessed One’s house!” Someone says to Jacob, “You, take it up and bless, for your bed was complete before the Present One!” He says to them, “I cannot bless, for I married two sisters in their lives, which the Torah would later forbid!” As it is said, “And a woman with her sister you will not take as wife to stress." (Leviticus 18:18) Someone says to Moses, “You, take it up and bless, for you received the Torah and upheld it!” He says to them, “I cannot bless, for I did not merit to enter the land of Israel.” Someone says to Joshua, “You, take it up and bless, for you brought Israel into the land and upheld the Torah!” He says to them, “I cannot bless, for I did not merit a son.” Someone says to David, “You, take it up and bless, for you are the sweet singer of Israel, (II Samuel 23:1) and their prince! As it is said, “And David My servant is their prince for eternity.” (Ezekiel 37:25) And he says, “I will bless, and it is fitting for me to bless!” As it is said, ‘The cup of salvation I will raise and on the name of the LORD I will call." (Psalm 116:13) After they eat and drink and bless, the Holy Blessed One brings out the Torah and lays it on His lap and studies from it about impurity and purity, about prohibitions and permissions, laws and legends, and David says songs before the Holy Blessed One and the righteous respond after him, "Amen! May His great name be blessed for eternity and eternity of eternities! Blessed be!" from the Garden of Eden, and the sinners of Israel respond “Amen!” from the midst of hell. Immediately the Holy Blessed One says to the messenger-angels, “Who are those who respond ‘Amen!’ from the midst of hell?” One says before Them, “Master of the universe! These sinners of Israel, who despite their great stress, strengthen themselves and say ‘Amen!’ before You.” Immediately the Holy Blessed One says to the messenger-angels, “Open for them the gates of the Garden of Eden, and they will come and hymn before Me!” As it is said, “Open the gates so the righteous nation comes, the faith-keeping.” (Isaiah 26:2) Don’t say “the faith-keeping” (shomer emunim) but rather “those who say amens” (she-omrim amenim).

“The Lord said to Aaron: Go toward Moses to the wilderness. He went, and he met him at the mountain of God and he kissed him” (Exodus 4:27).
“The Lord said to Aaron: Go toward Moses to the wilderness” – that is what is written: “If only you were as my brother [who nursed from the breasts of my mother; I would find you outside, I would kiss you]” (Song of Songs 8:1). Regarding which brother is the verse speaking? If you say it is regarding Cain, but is it not written: “Cain rose against his brother Abel and killed him”? If you say it is like Ishmael to Isaac, did we not learn: Ishmael hates Isaac? If you say it is like Esau to Jacob, is it not written: “Esau hated Jacob” (Genesis 27:41)? If you say it is like Joseph’s brothers, but is it not written: “They hated him” (Genesis 37:4), and it is written: “His brothers envied him” (Genesis 37:11). Rather, it is like Joseph to Benjamin, “who nursed from the breasts of my mother” (Song of Songs 8:1),¹Joseph and Benjamin were from the same mother, Rachel, whereas their other brothers were not sons of Rachel. [and] like Moses to Aaron, as it is stated: “He went, and he met him at the mountain of God and he kissed him.”
Our Rabbis, of blessed memory, said: All kisses are indecent except for three: The kiss of greatness, the kiss of separation, and the kiss of reunion. The kiss of greatness, as it is stated: “Samuel took the vial of oil, and poured it upon his head, and kissed him” (I Samuel 10:1); the kiss of separation: “Orpa kissed her mother-in-law” (Ruth 1:14); the kiss of reunion, as it is stated: “He went, and he met him at the mountain of God and he kissed him.”
Some say: Even a kiss of closeness is not disgraceful, as it is stated: “Jacob kissed Rachel” (Genesis 29:11), who was his relative. Rabbi Pinḥas said: There was an incident involving a brother and a sister, one of whom was in Gush Ḥalav and one of whom was in Beit Maron. The house in Gush Ḥalav caught fire. His sister came from Beit Maron and fell upon him and was hugging him and kissing him. She said: ‘I am not accustomed to come to you [and to kiss you], but I was afraid, as you are my brother and were in distress, and you emerged from it.’
“I would find you outside, I would kiss you” (Song of Songs 8:1) – where outside? It is in the wilderness, where the brothers, Moses and Aaron, kissed each other.