Song’s language and the Torah. To establish these links and new meanings, the words of the Song are often broken down into new components, and then related to historical or theological concerns not stated directly in the text. The literary figures in the Song are thus deemed allegories of topics suggested or depicted in the Torah. The task of exegesis is to make this explicit. Inevitably, different sages understood the Song’s intentions or possibilities differently. Thus the derash interpretation
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