“Oh, you are beautiful, my beloved, you are beautiful! - this refrain runs through the entire Song of Songs of King Solomon. “You have captivated my heart with one glance of your eyes, your caresses are better than wine, your figure is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like grape clusters...” Although Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines, he truly loved only two women in his long life - young Shulamith and the experienced Queen of Sheba. “Fortify me with wine, refresh me with apples, for I am faint from love!” How did these two beauties captivate the “sun-like” king, satiated with power and female affection? How to win the heart of a man who has long lost count of his love victories and “surpassed all the rulers of earth in wealth and wisdom”? How can you make a wise man lose his head in love and receive from him “everything you wanted and asked for”? What riddles must he solve to prove that he is worthy of the most desirable of women? And why is it that in the beautiful Song of Songs, this “hymn of triumphant love,” there are such words: “for love is strong as death; fierce, like hell, jealousy; her arrows are arrows of fire..."