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Jewish texts and source sheets about Song of Songs from Torah, Talmud and other sources in Sefaria's library. [Song of Songs](https://www.sefaria.org/Song_of_Songs?tab=contents) (“Shir Hashirim”) is one of the five megillot (scrolls), part of the section of the Hebrew Bible called Writings.
In the Hebrew language, every banquet of pleasure and joy is called after the wine, as it is stated (Esther 7:8): “to the house of the wine feast;” (Isa. 24:9): “In song they shall not drink wine;” (ibid. 5:12): “And there were harp and lute, tambourine and flute, and wine at their drinking feasts.”.
Understand the ancient Hebrew love poetry found in Song of Songs in the Bible. Explore its themes, style, and meaning through videos, podcasts, and more.
The Song of Songs (Biblical Hebrew: שִׁיר הַשִּׁירִים, romanized: Šīr hašŠīrīm), also called the Canticle of Canticles or the Song of Solomon, is a biblical poem, one of the five megillot ("scrolls") in the Ketuvim ('writings'), the last section of the Tanakh.
Song of Songs (“Shir Hashirim”) is one of the five megillot (scrolls), part of the section of the Hebrew Bible called Writings. Attributed in its opening verse to King Solomon, the book records poetic conversations between two lovers, describing their pursuit of each other through vineyards and fields of blossoming flowers.
The Song of Songs (Shir ha-Shirim in Hebrew) is an unabashedly sensuous, even at times quite erotic, paean to love. Throughout its eight short chapters, an unnamed young man and young woman pursue one another through verdant fields and valleys lush with flowers.
The full title in Hebrew is "The So of Songs, which is Solomon's." The book is called by some Canticles, and by others Solomon's Song. The Hebrew title implies that it is the choicest of all songs, in keeping with the dictum of Rabbi `Aqiba (90-135 A.D.) that "the entire world, from the beginning until now, does not outweigh the day in which ...
