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This is for you. A book that is traditionally read at Pesach is Shir
HaShirim "The Song of Songs" (meaning "the best of all possible songs").
King Shlomo here in 3:11, the son of Dovid, is
not the ultimate One who brings peace. One greater than Shlomo is here,
the rose of Sharon, the lily of the Valley (2:1), the fairest of ten
thousand (5:10). And he
does have a kallah or bride who
is faithful to his covenant with her. She is the people of G-d. He is her king (1:2-4,12) and her
shepherd (1:7-8). Moshiach is the Choson who has given his kallah
tohorah (purification), as Song of Songs says (4:7),
"you are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you." And the
covenant bride of the son of Dovid is called (tahm-mah-TEE) "my perfect
one" (5:2; 6:9). It says, Look! "Who is that coming up from the
wilderness...leaning upon her beloved" (8:5)? And the answer is, the
people of G-d, for they were married in the wilderness, they became
wedlock in covenant marriage with the L-rd at Mt. Sinai, and Pesach is the
wedding banquet, celebrating the covenant. IC 10:4 says that the beloved
Rock they leaned on in the Exodus wilderness was Moshiach. For IC 5:7
says, "Moshiach, our Pesach Lamb, has been sacrificed." See Isaiah 53:7. But to
keep the bridal garments clean, we need to clean out the old chametz (IC
5:7). We need to catch the proud little foxes that spoil the vineyard of
our love relationship with the Moshiach (2:15). We need to seek
him, while he may be
found. Song of Songs 3:l says, "Upon my bed at night I sought him whom
my soul loves." "With great delight" he wants you to sit in his shadow (2:3) today. He wants you
to be faint with love for him (2:5) today. Look, he is
coming, leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills (2:8). Even tonight he is
standing at the wall you have built to shut him out. A garden locked is
your soul (4:12). But
tonight he is gazing into the windows of your innermost being. I'm
talking about Ha'arye Y'huda, the Lion of Judah, the One to whom the
nations belong, the Chemdat Kol HaGoyim, the Desired of all Nations, Chaggai 2:7, the harvester
of the world. He is standing even now on his threshing floor, and you are
Ruth lying at his feet. "Kiss
the Son, (Nahsh-koo bar, the Bar Enosh coming on the
clouds of heaven), lest He be angry and you perish in the way. Happy
are all who take refuge in Him (Ps. 2:12). He is the "desired
of all nations.". He is altogether desirable (Song of Songs 5:16). He is saying to you
in love tonight, "Arise and come." G-d wants to make a Spring visit to
your soul. "For now the winter is past, the rain is over and gone. The
flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing has come, and the voice
of the turtledove is heard in our land. The fig tree puts forth its figs
[--are not the Jewish people beginning to turn to him?--Today is Yom Yerushalayim but
are you aware of what has been happening among the Jewish people since the
Six Day War?], and the vines are in blossom; they give forth
fragrance." The Moshiach is saying to your soul tonight, "Arise, beloved,
come." (See 2:10b-13.)
By his death he paid the bride-price and purchased us for himself, for his
very own (8:12). Now he
wants to set a seal on our hearts forever (8:6). By his Techiyas HaMeisim,
he proved that his "love is as strong as death" (8:6). Right now you are a
wall. He wants you to become a door he can enter. It's time to turn from
self and yield to him. Holy Covenant love requires that. Any kallah
(bride) can tell you. Remember the color white at Pesach? A bride must be
clean and dressed in white. If we come to him confessing our need to be
cleansed by him, we will be able to say, 'I am my beloved's and he is
mine" (6:3). "He
brought me to the banqueting table, and his banner over me is love" (2:4). The Ruach Hakodesh
wants to awaken love in your heart for the Moshiach of Israel tonight. You
must open to him and let him ravish your soul. Are you like Gomer chasing
after her lovers, with no vision for her Ish HaRishon, no vision to
discern your true Choson? Then you are not Israel, for it says,
"Afterward shall the Bnei Yisroel return, and seek Hashem Eloheihem, and
Dovid their melech (i.e., Moshiach) and shall fear Hashem and His goodness
in the acharit hayamim." (Hos 3:5). For just as the old
humanity was made male and female, so the new humanity is made Moshiach
and his Kallah. Chapter 2:7 is a refrain. See 3:5 and 8:4. The significance of
this refrain seems to be that love must be allowed to grow naturally, in
its own time. It is not to be rushed or forced. Look at 3:4. Belonging to Moshiach
is belonging to someone more indissolubly than one's own parents. Whoever loves parents
more than Moshiach is not worthy of Moshiach. This is a mystery,
beyond all comprehension, the way of a man with a virgin, the way Moshiach
called his virgin bride out of darkness into his marvelous light, the way we were, weak, under
wrath, not having done anything good, mere blind men on life's Road, far
from the Street called Straight. Then we heard the voice of the Beloved,
Moshiach whom our soul loves, his voice calling us out of heaven. We were in need of
deliverance from our own corrupt and crooked, wiley ways. You then
say, "How was I delivered, how did deliverance come to me from this
backslidden bondage?" Answer: by the grace of G-d, by the
One who called you--Ro
9:12. You became Messianic in the mikveh and it was Pesach (Ac 12:4) and were filled with
the Ruach Hakodesh
and many were praying for you (Ac 12:12) and consequently
G-d in his compassion shocked you back to your senses (see Ac 12:7). Then it is, dear
friend, that we look up and live, when we look up and cry out and come alive,
when we look up and see our wiley serpentine sin set on the pole, then it is
that we are healed from that firey serpent (Bamidbar 21:6-9). See Yn 3:14-15. For Moshiach, who knew no sin,
became that firey serpent sin FOR US, saving us from the
sting of death, so that we might become the Tzidkat Hashem in Moshiach
Tzidkeinu. See 2C
5:21.
