Shir Hashirim Ch. 8 by Shira Kahn | Malbim and the parable of the soul

Shir HaShirim #8 - the final chapter of this beautiful love song, but an unexpected ambiguity of distance and not togetherness concludes the sefer.My fantastic colleague, Shira Kahn, JLIC co-director at Princeton, shares beautiful thoughts based off of the fascinating readings of Ibn Ezra and the Malbim where the Song of Songs is a metaphor for the individual soul encased in the physical body. Text here: https://www.sefaria.org/Song_of_Songs.8?lang=bi