Song of Songs 5:10 Commentary: Rashi & Ezra ben Solomon

My beloved is pure white. White, as in, “they were whiter צַחוּ than milk.”³⁷Eichah 4:1.

My beloved is clear skinned and ruddy, Our sages say in the Midrash to Canticles: “My beloved is clear skinned and ruddy: His appearance is ruddy, black, green, and white. Thus the appearance of the Holy One is like ‘the appearance of the rainbow which is within the cloud’ [Ezek. 1:28].”

And ruddy. I will first explain the entire section according to its simple meaning, as the praise of the handsomeness of a young man, when he is white and his face is ruddy.