St. Bernard of Clairvaux, the great 12th century Catholic mystic and writer, wrote over 86 sermons on “The Song of Songs,” seeing in the verse “Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth” a metaphor for spiritual union with G-d: “For his living active word is to me a kiss, not indeed an adhering of the lips that can sometimes belie a union of hearts, but an unreserved infusion of joys, a revealing of mysteries, a marvelous and indistinguishable mingling of the divine light with the enlightened mind which, joined in truth to G-d, is one spirit with Him (sermon 2:1). ”
http://rabbielimallon.wordpress.com/2011/04/23/4-23-11-shir-ha-shirim-the-song-of-songs/
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