Love at the Center Resources

NOTE: This page will be updated, from the initial list on the Love at the Center page, as resources become known.

Here are resources to inform your explorations:

Articles

Happily Ever After? Well, No., musings about The Song of Songs and living on the edge
Initiation onto the Path of Love, an article about The Song of Songs
Love at the Center This article from 5/9/2023 is available online at Evolve.
The Purpose of Discord on the Path of Love, discussion about some disturbing passages in the Song of Songs
Song of Songs: Four Approaches to Love in Commentary and Music by Dr. Barry Dov Walfish (2023) focuses on four levels of interpretation of the Song of Songs. Scroll to the section on The Song of Songs in Jewish Music: Remez—Jewish Renewal where he mentions Rabbi Shefa’s chants and interpretations based on the Song of Songs.

Books

  • In the Fever of Love: An Illumination of the Song of Songs by Rabbi Shefa Gold (published by Ben Yehuda Press)
    Available in hardback or paperback in the online store.
  • The JPS Bible Commentary: The Song of Songs with commentary by Michael Fishbane
    (This is an amazing compilation of Jewish sources that have shaped the way the way we have interpreted the Song of the centuries. It is organized around the PaRDeS model, giving 4 levels of interpretation to each verse.)
  • The Song of Songs by Ariel and Chana Bloch (published by Random House)
  • The Song of Songs: Love Lyrics from the Bible by Marcia Falk (originally published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977; reissued by Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England, September 2004.)
  • Songs of the Soul: Malbim’s commentary to Canticles by J. Hershy Worch and Rav Meir Leibush ben Yehiel Michel Wisser
    Available on Amazon.

Music

  • Shir Delight: A Journey through the Song of Songs by Rabbi Shefa Gold and Rachmiel O’Regan
    A CD of music and text available through the online store and MP3 files available through OySongs.
  • Rabbi Shefa Gold’s Shir HaShirim chants

Web Pages

App

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