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Podcast: Jewish Ideas to Change the World
Episode: How Many Lovers Are in the Song of Songs?
Description: A virtual presentation by Rabbi Dr. Devorah Schoenfeld
ABOUT THE EVENT:
The Song of Songs is a collection of poems describing romantic love, and is traditionally read as an allegory for the love between God and God’s people. Traditional commentaries have tended to read the Song of Songs as one continuous narrative, telling a single love story between two lovers. But is the Song of Songs one story or many? And how many lovers are there really? Using Rashi’s commentary and Midrash Rabbah as well as modern scholarship we will look at different possible answers to these questions, and...