Rashi, on Song 2:7

“I adjure you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and the harts of the, fields, that you stir not up, nor make the beloved to awake, till she please.”

“I adjure you you nations. by the gazelles or by the hinds that you will be abandoned and preyed upon like gazelles and hinds. that you neither awaken nor arouse the love that is between my beloved and I, to change it and to alter it and beg me to be enticed to follow you. while it is desirous as long as it is thrust in my heart, and he desires me. while it is desirous Heb. עַד, like (1:12): “While (עַד) the king was at his table,” [i.e.,] while (בְּעוֹד) the king was still at his table. that you neither awaken Heb. תָּעִירוּ, if you cause hatred, like (I Sam. 28:16): “and has become your adversary (עָרֶךָ)”; (Dan. 4:16): “and its interpretation for Your foes (לְעָרָךְ).” nor contest Heb. תְּעוֹרְרוּ, like (Keth. 13: 6): “one who contests the ownership (הָעוֹרֵר) of a field,” chalon[j]טr in Old French, to contest, claim. There are many aggadic midrashim but they do not fit the sequence of the topics, for I see that Solomon prophesied and spoke about the Exodus from Egypt and about the giving of the Torah, the Tabernacle, the entry to the Land, the Temple, the Babylonian exile, and the coming of the Second Temple and its destruction.”

Hebrew and Aramaic words are the commentator’s citations of the sacred text; the English translation that follows each is the translator’s.

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.