Song of Songs 2:17 Commentary: Rashi & Ezra ben Solomon

עַ֤ד שֶׁיָּפ֙וּחַ֙ הַיּ֔וֹם וְנָ֖סוּ הַצְּלָלִ֑ים סֹב֩ דְּמֵה־לְךָ֨ דוֹדִ֜י לִצְבִ֗י א֛וֹ לְעֹ֥פֶר הָאַיָּלִ֖ים עַל־הָ֥רֵי בָֽתֶר׃ (ס)

Until the day breathe, and the shadows flee away, Turn, my beloved, and be thou like a gazelle or a young hart Upon the mountains of spices.

Rashi on Song of Songs

Until the sun spreads. This refers to the preceding verse, “My beloved is mine, and I am his,”39Above Verse 16. until the time that the iniquity caused the sun to darken me in the heat of the day, and the heat intensified.40See Above 1:5-7.
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Ezra ben Solomon on Song of Songs

Until the day blows gently: When the sin of the Amorites will attain its consummation and their power and might be removed.
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Rashi on Song of Songs

And the shadows flee. We sinned with the [golden] calf; we sinned with the spies, “and the shadows flee,” [i.e.,] the merits that protected us [disappeared because] we broke off His yoke.
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Ezra ben Solomon on Song of Songs

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