A propos de Shula Rajaonah
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"Mets-moi comme un sceau sur ton coeur,
Car l'amour est fort comme la mort,
La jalousie est inflexible comme le séjour des morts;
Ses ardeurs sont des ardeurs de feu,
Peaceful, in Hebrew a feminine name, corresponding to Solomon
"Quand les montagnes s'éloigneraient, Quand les collines chancelleraient, Mon amour ne s'éloignera point de toi, Et mon alliance de paix ne chancellera point, Dit l'Eternel, qui a compassion de toi." ESAIE 54:10
"Alors, pourquoi dois-je écouter mon coeur ? - Parce que tu n'arriveras jamais à le faire taire. Et même si tu feins de ne pas entendre ce qu'il te dit, il sera là, dans ta poitrine, et ne cessera de répéter ce qu'il pense de la vie et du monde." Paulo Coelho
"This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you."
Paulo Coelho
Shula : From the same root as Shalom sh-l-m. Refers to a cycle, returning, health, peace, greetings, and many other things. It is also the name of the lover in the "Song of Songs." Generally miss-translated in Bibles into English as "Shulamite."
The Shulamite woman.
peaceable; perfect; that recompenses
[ syll. (s)hu-la-mi-te, sh-ulam-ite ] The baby girl name Shulamite is pronounced as -SHUWLAEMAYT- †. Shulamite's origin and use are both in the Hebrew language.
† approx English pronunciation for Shulamite: SH as in "she (SH.IY)" ; UW as in "two (T.UW)" ; L as in "lay (L.EY)" ; AE as in "at (AE.T)" ; M as in "me (M.IY)" ; AY as in "side (S.AY.D)" ; T as in "tee (T.IY)"
☺ Soyons reconnaissants aux personnes qui nous donnent du bonheur ; Elles sont les charmants jardiniers par qui nos âmes sont fleuries.☺ Proust
Le prénom Shula signifie Peace i.e Paix en hébreu
C'est le diminutif de Shulamite
du Cantique des Cantiques de Salomon dans la Bible.
"A chaque être, correspond une forme d'amour spécifique ;
son bonheur est de la rencontrer."
Jean Simard
*La vie de chacun d'entre nous n'est pas une tentative d'aimer Elle est l'unique essai* Pascal Quignard
Shula Rajaonah
Oh ! si tu étais attentif à Mes commandements ! Ton bien-être serait comme un fleuve et ton bonheur comme les flots de la mer. Esaïe 48:18
☺ Soyons reconnaissants aux personnes qui nous donnent du bonheur ; Elles sont les charmants jardiniers par qui nos âmes sont fleuries.☺ Proust
Solomon had many women. Why would he write about the Shulamite? He wrote about her because she was the one who got away. He had all the wealth, all the woman and all the wisdom he could desire but he wanted this little woman as well. But she resisted all his offers and eventually got away.
Some commentators have thought that she was Pharaoh’s daughter or the Queen of Sheba. But again this cannot be so. She was not rich, powerful or foreign. We are told that she tended sheep and tended to vineyards and as a result she was heavily sunburnt (Song 1:6). Her mother was a widow and she had brothers.
She is always associated in the song with villages, fields, gardens, sheepfolds and mountains; not palaces, princes and power. Her name comes from Shulem or Shunem a small village near Nazareth (Song 6:13)
Song 8:4
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, Do not stir up nor awaken love until it pleases. NKJV
The Song was written by Solomon. Solomon means Peaceful. He sings of the Shulamite - the Perfect One, or the Peacable One. The Shulamite rightfully declared that she belongs to her Beloved and that He is her posession. Nothing would separate her from her Beloved. She has exclusive access to His chambers, she is seated at the King's table, and she enjoys exclusive intimacy with her Beloved! In Ephesians 5 Paul speaks of a great mystery, the marriage relationship between Christ and His Bride; the corporate Church. He compares our marriage to Christ to the marriage between a husband and his wife. John revealed the Bride, the New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as bride adorned for her husband. (Revelation 21:2) In the Acts of the Apostles and the early Church there were two expressions of Church life. The believers gathered daily in their households of faith for teaching, fellowship, communion and prayers, and the households would all gather together at the temple to celebrate the Body of Christ. The Church in the City would include all the believers in the entire city.
SHULAMITE in Sign Language:
This equipping of the saints takes place in the local household of faith. God called Solomon to build His Temple. David was unable to build His Temple as he was a man of war, but Solomon would be a man of Rest. (1 Chronicles 22:6-11). When Solomon built the temple the stone was finished at the quarry, so that no hammer or chisel or any iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built. (1 Kings 6:7) The local church is a quarry where the living stones are carefully prepared to feature in the Temple. Today many pastors are equipping the saints with guitars and microphones instead of hammers and chisels. The local church became a place of entertainment. But the Lord never intended for the emphasis and the beauty to be visible in the local church. The local church is a noisy place. It is a place of crafting and shaping, teaching and discipline. Intimacy with the Beloved was never intended for the daughters of Jerusalem. The Beloved belongs to the Shulamite.
There should be an increasing burden upon every leader of the local church to pursue the Shulamite. Every pastor must pursue the Corporate Gathering of the Saints. The Shulamite warned us: Do not stir up nor awaken love until it pleases. If you are not connected to the corporate temple in your city, if you have no desire to engage other leaders in your city you have no right to the Chambers of Christ.
The "Stirring up of love" belongs to the Shulamite company - The Bride of Christ.
SHULAMITE in Braille (Blind) Alphabet :
SHULA in Morse Code :
SHULA in Braille (Blind) Alphabet :
SHULA in Sign Language :
The Shulamite Cinderella
Act 1: Put to Work!
Solomon had a vineyard in the hill country of Ephraim, just outside the little town of Shunam, about 50-miles north of Jerusalem (8:11). The vineyard was rented out to a family of sharecroppers, consisting of a mother, two sons, and two daughters. The oldest of these girls was the Shulamite, and the youngest, her little sister (6:13; 8:8).
The Shulamite was the Cinderella of the family, having great natural beauty, but unnoticed by the world. Her brothers made her work very hard, tending to the vineyards, so that she had little opportunity to care for her personal appearance. (1:6) She pruned the vines, she set traps for the little foxes (2:15), she also kept the flocks (1:8).From being out in the open so often, she became sunburned (1:6)
Act 2: The Shepherd Stranger
One day a mysterious, handsome stranger comes to the vineyard and soon wins the heart of the Shulamite girl. Unknown to her, he is really Solomon, disguised as a lowly shepherd. She asks about his flocks (1:7). He answers evasively, but is very definite concerning his love for her (1:8-10). He leaves her, but promises he will someday return to her.
During his absence she dreams of him on two occasions;
a. First Dream - that they are already married and that one night she awakens to find him missing from her bed. She quickly dresses and goes out looking for him (3:2-4).
b. Second Dream - that her beloved has returned and besought her to open the door and let him in. But she refuses for she is unwilling to re-clothe herself and soil her feet going to the door. Soon however, her heart smites her for this shabby action and she leaps for the door. But alas, he has gone! "I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock. I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer." (5:4-6) Suddenly and joyfully she discovers his whereabouts.
These then, are her two dreams concerning the mysterious shepherd lover of the Shulamite girl. But why did he leave her? Where did he go? Would he ever return?
Act 3: The Mighty Monarch
One day the little town of Shunam receives some electrifying news. King Solomon himself is approaching their city. But the lovesick and lonely maiden is not interested, and takes no further notice until word is brought to her that the powerful potentate himself desires to see her. She is puzzled until she is brought into his presence, where she recognizes him as her beloved shepherd. He then gently explains to her that although he has already gathered sixty wives, eighty concubines, and unnumbered virgins, that she will be his choice bride and true love (6:8). He invites her to come with him and promises to care for her little sister (8:8, 9). The bride is then placed in the King's chariot, made from the wood of Lebanon, with silver posts, a golden canopy, and purple seating (3:9, 10). Together, they ride off to the Royal Palace in Jerusalem, accompanied by sixty mighty swordsmen and experienced body guards (3:7, 8)
In Conclusion
Solomon, represents Christ as the triumphant prince of peace. The camp in the wilderness represents the Church in the world; the peaceful reign of Solomon, after all enemies had been subdued, represents the Church in heaven, of which joy the Song gives a foretaste. The interpretation is twofold:
1. Primarily, the book is the expression of pure marital love as ordained of God in creation, and the vindication of that love as against both asceticism and lust--the two profanations of the holiness of marriage.
2. The secondary and larger interpretation is of Christ, the Son and His heavenly bride, the Church.
Song of Songs 1:1-4:16; 2 Corinthians 8:16-24;
Psalm 50:1-23; Proverbs 22:22-23
Song of Songs 1:1-4:16
When I was around ten or eleven years old I was taken to a movie. I don't remember much about the movie, but I do remember that in the movie at one point, a man was in bed with a woman. In our modern day and with our modern media, this would appear to be no big deal. But at that time in my life, I was completely embarrassed. I felt that I was seeing something that was meant to be private and sacred. The intimacy of a man in bed with a woman was not to be violated by outsiders. As I write this in the year 2011, we are so far from treating images of sexual relationships as sacred that my reaction as a young girl seems almost absurd.
Today, in the Song of Songs, we will tread on holy ground. We will be brought into the bed chambers of Christ and His Church. The sacred and the intimate relationship will be shared. This love song is a story of two lovers. It contains yearning, passion and fulfillment.
Commentators of the Bible agree that the Song of Songs, which was written by Solomon contains four different and important meanings:
- The glory of wedded love. This book shows us the sacredness of the marital bond and the passion that is a part of this type of bond.
- The love of God (Jehovah) for Israel. The Bible often portrays Israel as the wife of God and Israel's unfaithfulness as a breach in a marital relationship.
- A picture of Christ and His Church. The Church is portrayed in Scripture (Eph. 5, Rev. 21) as the bride of Christ. Jesus refers to himself as the bridegroom on many occasions. This book takes us into the honeymoon and beyond.
- The communion of Christ with the individual believer. This book is a manual for the passion that each believer in Jesus should feel for the Savior. Jesus is passionate about us. We must experience His love, deeply. This book gives us a good way to think in those terms.
The story is of a Shulamite girl who works in the vineyard and has become sun tanned as a result. In our day, that is a badge of honor, but in this day, having dark skin because of working outside all day is a mark of humility. Here is someone who is working for their salvation. This is a picture of Israel, the church and individuals who are working for their salvation.
One day, a handsome shepherd appears. He falls in love with the girl. He is intoxicated with her and she with him. He smells of frankincense and myrrh. It is not hard for us to see the imagery of Christ. Jesus was brought both frankincense and myrrh by the wise men some time after his birth. He was also anointed with myrrh as he was buried after his death. This symbolism shows us the beautiful fragrance to the Church of Jesus' birth and death. His birth and death should draw each of us individually to Jesus, our lover.
He is our handsome Shepherd who ends our need to work in the vineyard and brings us to his palace of love. Matthew 11:28 says, "Come to me all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest."
The chorus cries out that his love is better than wine. How true that the joy we receive from Christ cannot compare to the joy produced by alcohol. You may feel great temporarily when you have a glass of wine, but the feeling of knowing Christ does not leave you with a headache the next day.
The woman wonders where the shepherd is leading his flocks this day. Do you wonder about the methods that Jesus uses in the Church? Do you wonder if certain people really are part of his flock? There is a mystery to the work of Jesus as our Good Shepherd.
Notice in chapter 1 verse 13 that the woman says her lover is like a sachet of myrrh lying between her breasts. Is Christ (his birth and death) settled like a lover in your heart?
The bride waits for her husband who is off, but returns in the Spring (chapter 2:12). This pictures Christ's resurrection. He was gone briefly in death (the winter), but returns in the Spring with resurrected life. She cries out, "Arise, my beloved, my fair one and come away with me." (vs. 13). Have you asked the resurrected Christ to come away with you? He wants this desire from you. He wants you to want Him.
In chapter 3, we see the young woman roaming the streets of the city in search of her lover. Where has he gone? It is nighttime and she is lonely without him. A little while later, she finds him. Isn't this the state that the Church is presently in? Aren't we wandering in the nighttime as our love is seated in heaven? There will be a reuniting of the Church (bride) with Christ (bridegroom) in the future. We will embrace Him, face to face. We see the chorus describe the groom coming like a cloud in the desert. He smells of frankincense and myrrh. He comes as a king surrounded by warriors. This, my friends, is a picture of our King of Kings and Lord of Lords as he comes for His bride, the Church.
In chapter 4, we get a description of Jesus' heart for his bride. It is a picture of a man who feels that his bride is perfect in every part. He describes his heart as being ravished by her. The woman is his treasure and he is overcome by her beauty. She is his private garden and a quenching fountain. She provides living water that satisfies his thirst. Do you think of yourself as this to Christ? Do you understand His desire to be with you? You ravish His heart.
His bride calls out for him to come into her garden and eat its choicest fruits. Oh, for this type of intimacy with the Lord! Passion shared and enjoyed. Do you invite Jesus to have this sort of intimacy with you? Have you given Him the deepest part of yourself?
2 Corinthians 8:16-24
The Apostle Paul was a man of impeccable character. Today, he confirms to the Corinthians that as he and Titus carry the offering for the poor saints in Jerusalem, they will be honorable before the Lord in how they handle the situation. They will not indulge in taking a little money for themselves and profiting from the gifts of others. Boy, do we need this type of attitude in the modern church. How many men and women are attempting to personally profit from gifts meant to minister to others. Jesus is watching.
Psalm 50:1-23
This psalm speaks of the Lord returning and judging the world. Only God can reveal the way of salvation.
Proverbs 22:22-23
The Lord is the defender of the poor.
Blessings,
Jubilee Gal
shulamite in Jewish Gematria Equals: 463 | ( | s 90 |
h 8 |
u 200 |
l 20 |
a 1 |
m 30 |
i 9 |
t 100 |
e 5 |
) |
shulamite in English Gematria Equals: 648 | ( | s 114 |
h 48 |
u 126 |
l 72 |
a 6 |
m 78 |
i 54 |
t 120 |
e 30 |
) |
shulamite in Simple Gematria Equals: 108 | ( | s 19 |
h 8 |
u 21 |
l 12 |
a 1 |
m 13 |
i 9 |
t 20 |
e 5 |
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