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I am to my dear and my dear is to me. The
congress of Israel is likened to the beloved and the holy one blessed
is he is David. The connection between Israel and the holy one blessed
is he is likened to marriage. Which means to say, may this, the
connection between Israel and their father in heaven be a mutual one.
Just as a man needs a woman, and he is not whole without her, and
despite all his unique qualities and accolades, he still requires "a helper as his partner." Without a
woman, he can not create life, nor can he maintain continuity nor can
he procreate. That is why G-d created for himself "a helper as his
partner", the people of Israel. That is what The Blessed one willed,
that the existence of the world and its evolution would be maintained
by the connection of the nation of Israel with the holy one blessed be
he.
The congregation of Israel is the bride, she is the lover of David, and
David, the Holy one blessed is he apparently needs her, that she will
participate in his deeds. And the lover courts her, serenades her and
requests her proximity (company) "O my dove, that art in the
clefts of the rock, in the covert of the cliff, let me see thy
countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy
countenance is comely.' Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou
art fair; thine eyes are as doves. Thou art all fair, my love; and
there is no spot in thee." This is how the Lover speaks to his
beloved; this is how the holy one blessed is he speaks to the
congregation of Israel. "Come with me from Lebanon, my bride,
with me from Lebanon; look from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir
and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards."
"Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my bride;" "How
fair is thy love, my sister, my bride!" Hark! my beloved knocketh:
'Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled". The
lover, The Holy one blessed be he knocks on the entrance of the
congregation of Israel, and asks her to open the door, that she will
let him in, that she will open her closed heart, and if there was a
period of alienation, from her side, of forgetfulness, of ignoring, of
apathy, the lover calls her, awakens her from her apathy." my
beloved knocketh", because the lover knows that the congregation
of Israel in her inner being is pure and complete, and there is no
defect in her. All this apathy from her side, all this estrangement and
distance, there is nothing concrete to it. It's all a deceptive
imagination, because actually the congregation of Israel is indivisibly
connected to the Blessed one.
Indeed the bride is attracted to her lover; she yearns for him, pines
for him and seeks him out. She admires her lover." My lover is
pure and red, and stands out from the many, his head is golden orange,
his locks curled and black like a crow" and she implores" Draw
me, we will run after thee; the king hath brought me into his chambers;
we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will find thy love more
fragrant than wine! Sincerely do we love thee."
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