“I take You, I bring You to my mother’s house to
teach me. I give You scented wine to drink, of the juice of my pomegranate.” (Song
of Songs 8:2)
Israel tells God that by her returning to His ways
and attributes, she brings Him to their eternal bonding in the house of her
mother (the Temple of Jerusalem). There God instructs Israel His plan for the
Messianic era, and she will bring Him the goodness of the expressions
(pomegranate juice) of the new future consciousness as a delightful scented
wine. Also in Jewish tradition the seeds of pomegranates represent God’s
commandments.
“His left hand is under my head, and His right one
embraces me.” (8:3)
Israel’s love joyously and proudly reaffirms her
unchanging bond with God’s love, as declared at the beginning of this poem.
This time has a special twist, for it is the bond with the eternal quality
fully manifest after Israel’s final redemption and the advent of the Messianic
era.
“I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem. How do
you stir or how do you arouse the love until she pleases?” (8:4)
In this new redeeming reality, God commands the traits
and characteristics of the highest level of consciousness (the daughters of
Jerusalem) to wake up and stir Israel’s essence and identity in order for her
to express the new qualities of the inherent goodness of her love as much as
she pleases.
In the fulfillment of His final redemption, God
will stir up our inherent goodness to bring our love back to His love.
“Who is she ascending from the desert, leaning
upon her Beloved? Under the apple [tree] I aroused you. There your mother was
giving birth to you, she who bore you delivered you.” (8:5)
God responds by also
returning to her as we quoted the prophets earlier, “Return to Me, and I will
return to you”. He asks rhetorically who is the one who returns from the desert
(among the harshness and desolation of the suffering in Israel’s exile among
the nations), by leaning upon Him as she returns to Him. This returning is
motivated, attained and successfully achieved by having and manifesting an
extremely intense love for God, for there is no other way to return to Him.
“And if from there you seek the Lord
your God, you shall find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all
your soul.”, “Then the Lord your God will turn your captivity, and have
compassion on you; and will return and gather you from all the peoples where
the Lord your God has scattered you.” (Deuteronomy 4:29,
30:33)
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