Sunday, August 18, 2013

כרם, גפן וזית

A comment to Rav Fish at Yeranen Yaakov, regarding Shir HaShirim 7:13:

נַשְׁכִּימָה, לַכְּרָמִים--נִרְאֶה אִם-פָּרְחָה הַגֶּפֶן פִּתַּח הַסְּמָדַר, הֵנֵצוּ הָרִמּוֹנִים; שָׁם אֶתֵּן אֶת-דֹּדַי, לָךְ

The targum at this verse:

אֲמָרִין בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל אִלֵּין לְאִלֵּין נַקְדִּים בְּצַפְרָא וּנְהָךְ לְבֵית כְּנִשְׁתָּא וּלְבֵית מִדְרְשָׁא וּנְבַקֵּר בְּסִפְרָא דְּאוֹרַיְתָא וְנֶחֱמֵי אִי מָטָא זְמַן פֻּרְקָנָא דְּעַמָא בֵּית יִשְׂרָאֵל דִּמְתִילִין לְגוּפְנָא לְאִתְפַּרָקָא מִגָּלוּתְהוֹן וְנִשְׁאָל לְחַכִּימַּיָא אִתְגְּלֵי קֳדָם ה' זְכוּתָא דְּצַדִּיקַיָּא דְּמַלְיָן פִּקּוֹדַיָּא כְּרִמָּנָא אִי מָטָא קִצָּא לְמֵסָק לִירוּשְׁלֵם לְמַתָּן תַּמָּן שְׁבָח לֶאֱלָהָא דִּשְׁמַיָא וּלְמִקְרָב עַלְוָן וְנִכְסָת קוּדְשִׁין.

which in English (translation Yaak) is:

The children of Israel say one to another, "Let's get up early in the morning and go to the synagogue and study hall and research in the book of the Torah and see if the time of the Redemption of the Nation of the House of Israel - which is compared to a vine - has arrived to be redeemed from their exile. And we will ask the sages - about whom it is revealed to Hashem the merit of the righteous, who are full of Mitzvot like a pomegranate - if the Keitz has arrived to go up to Yerushalayim to give there praises to the G-d of the heavens and to bring burnt-offerings and peace-offerings.

What did they refer to? To:

זית זך כתית למאור להעלת נר תמיד

and the understanding of the secret 410-417-420, the Keitz that is in the Torah. I think להעלת נר תמיד is hinted to as וּלְמִקְרָב עַלְוָן וְנִכְסָת קוּדְשִׁין, and לֶאֱלָהָא דִּשְׁמַיָא refers to למאור.
Note that Chavakuk needed a Luach with more than 22 letters, to understand the Chaf Sofit.

And indeed it was very early in the morning, of 29 MarCheshvan, in the year 5770, when I set out to research the Torah, that the secret dawned upon me.

“The term of the Exile has already been completed, and the merit of the righteous has released its fragrance before Me."