SHS Commandment 4

Thou shalt truly experience pleasure and surrender to the intoxication of Love, occasionally losing ‘control.’

He brought me to the tavern,
And His banner over me is Love.     Song of Songs 2:4

The ‘tavern’ of mystical literature is the place we go to be freed from categories, definitions and concepts regarding the nature of Self, God and Reality. There we can be ‘claimed’ by the naked truth of our direct experience — unmediated by our notions about what is desirable, or real, or even possible. We are commanded to relinquish control… (which is to actually abandon the illusion of control) long enough to be filled to overflowing with a Spirit that cannot be tamed or contained. The Song of Songs commands us:

Feast, friends, and drink
till you are drunk with love!     Song of Songs 5:1

See also Shir HaShirim (Miketz) and Shir HaShirim (Kedoshim).


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