“If she is a wall, we will build upon her a silver turret; and if she is a door, we will affix upon her a cedar panel. I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers; then I was in his eyes as one who finds peace” (Song of Songs 8:9–10). “If she is a wall, we will build upon her a silver turret”; “if she is a wall” – this is Abraham. The Holy One blessed be He said: If he stands firm in his convictions like a wall, “we will build upon her a silver turret” – we will rescue him and build him up in this world.
“And if she is a door [delet], we will affix upon her a cedar panel” – if he is poor [dal] in mitzvot and sways to and fro in his actions like a door, “we will affix [natzur] upon her a cedar panel” – just as a drawing [tzura] exists only for a short while, so I will stand with him only for a short while. “I am a wall” – Abraham said before the Holy One blessed be He: ‘I am a wall, and I will establish my good deeds like a wall.’
“And my breasts are like towers” – as I am destined to establish factions and groups of righteous men like me in the world.23This is a reference to Abraham’s offspring. The term breasts is used to represent nourishing and raising the offspring. “Then I was in his eyes as one who finds peace” – the Holy One blessed be He said to him: ‘Just as you descended into the fiery furnace, so, I will extricate you intact.’
That is what is written: “I am the Lord who took you out of Ur24Ur means fire in Aramaic. of the Chaldeans” (Genesis 15:7).