Showing posts with label Song of Songs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Song of Songs. Show all posts

Thursday, May 8, 2014

Sefer haZohar on Shir haShirim (Song of Songs)

"This song is a song encompassing the whole Torah, a song aroused by those above and those below, a song resembling the world that is entirely Sabbath, a song by which the supernal Holy Name is adorned. So it is Holy of Holies."

-- Sefer haZohar, 2:143b (transl. D. Matt, Pritzker ed. vol. 5, p. 310)

This "song" is the Shir haShirim, the Song of Songs in the Ketuvim.

Compare with:

"The whole world is not worth the day on which the Shir haShirim (Song of Songs) was given to Israel; for all the Ketuvim (Writings) are holy, but the Shir haShirim is the Qodesh Qadoshim (Holy of Holies)." -- attributed to Rabbi Akiva in Mishnah, Yadayim 3:5