“My Beloved is clear and ruddy, preeminent above a myriad! His
head [is] finest gold, His locks [are as if] flowing, black as raven. His eyes
[are like] doves besides streams of water, bathing in milk, sitting in
fullness.” (Song of Songs, 5:10-12)
Israel responds that she knows God quite well, and can recognize
Him in the countless multitude of His creation. Israel knows that He is
actually present and evident as the Creator of all that is, who controls and
directs His creation.
This evident presence is what makes God “clear” and alive as the
ruddy blood flowing in our body. Hence He is preeminent and conspicuous above
the multitude of His creation we are able to see with human eyes.
The allegory continues describing God as the cause and source of
all as the highest and exalted as the finest gold can represent. Cause and
source of all as the “head” that rules above all.
The flowing hair as wavy
symbolizes the eternal and endless dimensions that emanate from God's plan and
will for His creation, unfathomable to us as the shinning blackness of the
raven's feathers.
God's love “eyes” for goodness and its expressions in His
creation, flowing and moving free as “doves” that drink the living waters of
His ways and attributes, from which all is created and nurtured. This
sustenance is also the “milk” with which we are also renewed and revitalized
every moment, as the source of our fullness and plenitude in which we abode.
The streams of water and ponds of milk are the wisdom and
knowledge of the Torah God gave to Israel as their wedlock that constitutes the
fullness where we sit as Israel's love embraces God's love.
Our human perception is conditioned according to our
circumstances, either filled and approached with love's ways and attributes or
with the limitations of ego's fantasies and illusions. God's love indeed
sustains and fills all His creation.
“All the earth is full of His glory!” (Isaiah 6:3)
We become aware of the perfection of God's creation when we begin
to approach it through a selfless perception, realizing that everything comes
from God's love; and that love is the driving force that unites all, sustains
all, and fills all to perfection.
Only in our complete awareness of love as our essence and true
identity, we will be able to fully relate to God's love as the source and
sustenance of all that exists. We begin to relate to God's creation through the
eyes of love's ways and attributes. Then we realize that love is what connects,
binds, unites and harmonizes everything.
Thus we will approach each other and our surroundings with loving kindness,
grace, compassion, cooperation and empathy, coexisting in harmony and peace. As
this awareness becomes permanent in our consciousness, we begin to live our
final redemption and enter the Messianic era.
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