Mishlei #18 Ch5-V19-Ch6-V5

"Ayeles ahavim," she is a doe or a hind, a female deer that's beloved.

"V'yaeles chen," and an ibex of grace, an ibex being a, a mountain goat, so a female mountain goat of grace.

"Daadeha yeravucha b'chal eis," her breasts will quench or satiate you at all time.

"Ba'ahavasa tishge tamid," you alw-you will always be involved in her love.

So he's taking the mashal of a person's connection to Torah and wisdom and, and mitzvahs and Hashem, and taking it deeper into the specifics of the relationship between man and woman.

In this case, starting with these two, what would have in those days have been very endearing terms, uh, which would be to refer to a woman as beautiful as an ayeles, which is a female deer.

Uh, depending on how often you see deer, we have a little bit of a different impression, and the same thing with the ibex.

Um, but interesting that there's different words.

The ayeles, the female deer, is ahavim, while the yaeles, the ibex, is chen.

One is love, and one is grace.

And as they explain, love is the feelings that you can understand and know why you appreciate this person.

And grace, chen, as we've mentioned a number of times in this Sefer, refers to chenam.

When something is free, you can't necessarily explain it.

And it's really interesting that the English word translates really well because we would say that an ibex, a female mountain goat, is graceful.

But the word graceful in English, right, we don't mean chen like grace, we mean the way that it moves, but it is the same chen because there's just something about the movements of the animal that presents a certain, uh, regality or grace, and that speaks to us even if we can't explain why.

And so that's ayeles ahavim represents the deer, which itself I can tell why it's beautiful, and then yaeles chen.

And then also it will be for you, the Torah and your wisdom, will also be like the mountain goat, which brings out this grace within you that you couldn't even necessarily explain.

And I, I wanna also mention again that the name of the Sefer is Sefer Mishlei.

If I tell you that this person is so sweet that they're as sweet as honey, then you can know from that statement that honey is sweet.

Otherwise, my statement wouldn't make sense.

So if it's saying that you should, uh, have created a relationship with the Torah in the way that you're supposed to picture this relationship between man and woman in this way, so then he's also at the same time saying that this should be the relationship between man and woman, that there should be ahavim, which is the love that you can recognize, and the chen, the grace that's, that's behind it, but you can't necessarily read, uh, or see.

Those are represented by these two animals, the ayeles and the yael, the female deer and the, and again, the mountain goat, the ibex.

So, so you started to say Torah and wisdom.

Is that connected to the ayeles and the yael?

So the, the Torah and wisdom, the Torah and wisdom will bring out in you, like in this case, the, the wife in the mashal, will bring out in you these feelings of both ahavim and chen, ahavim represented by the ay-ayeles and whatever that, that means in that sense.