bliss—[this refers] to the building of the Temple. May it be (re)built speedily in our time! Amen.” Once again we find the Song’s original love lyrics set alongside their rabbinic reinterpretation—an interpretation of Sinai as a sacred marriage between Israel (the daughters of Zion) and God (Solomon, an ancient epithet of Divinity),20 and of the Temple as a connubial canopy (with a messianic prayer added for good measure). We thus have one book but two Songs: one stirs interpersonal love, while the