“I am my Beloved's and my Beloved is mine, who feeds among the
roses.” (Song of Songs 6:3)
Israel knows her Beloved and His dwellings, for both belong to
each other and share their common bonds founded on the goodness of love's ways
and attributes, from which God nurtures His creation with His constant
blessings as roses to pick from His garden.
As it has been mentioned, the Creator shares this garden with Israel as His partner in bestowing the blessings to make goodness prevail in the material world.
As it has been mentioned, the Creator shares this garden with Israel as His partner in bestowing the blessings to make goodness prevail in the material world.
“You are beautiful, My beloved, as Tirzah. Comely as Jerusalem, awe inspiring as an army with banners.” (6:4)
God recognizes and praises Israel's love as her desire (“Tirzah”)
to bond with His love. Also reiterates His love comparing her to
Jerusalem. We can understand Tirzah as the motivation and determination, desire
and willingness to fulfill Israel's destiny to be the guiding light for the
nations.
In this sense Jerusalem represents the fulfillment of this
destiny. Once achieved, it is as imposing and compelling as an army whose high
banners of loving kindness, righteousness, compassion, fairness, truth and
peace inspire the nations to revere them. Thus the nations make them their principles
and values to live for.
God compares Israel to Jerusalem as one and the same, for the love
He shares with Israel inspires the
nations to follow her in the elimination of evil and negative traits from human
consciousness, initiating the final redemption and the establishment of the
Messianic era.
In these coming times, the highest level of consciousness where
love leads all aspects, facets and dimensions of life, inspires and evokes the
complying and reverence of the lower levels arousing their desire to follow its
ways and directions to rejoice in their goodness.
“Turn Your eyes away from me, for they have made me proud. Your
hair [is] as a flock of goats streaming down from Gilead. Your teeth [are] like
a flock of sheep coming up from the washing. All of them wholesome, forming
twins, and there is none missing among them. Your temples are like a slice of
pomegranate from behind your veil.” (6:5-7)
Israel confesses that God's love led her to become haughty. This
haughtiness turned her to materialistic desires out of ego's fantasies and
illusions of grandeur. We can also understand this first sentence as Israel's
difficulty to fully assimilate and bear with the overwhelming qualities of
God's love for the human consciousness. Thus, leading her to follow the profane
ways of the nations.
Returning to her natural humbleness, Israel evades God's love for feeling
unworthy of it. At the same time, she yearns and evokes the beauty and delight
of her rejoicing in bonding with His love in the inner chamber of their Temple,
as metaphorically described in the previous chapters.
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