126. It is written, “Then he shall let his hair grow long,” meaning that he must let the hair of his head and beard grow long, and retire from wine and from rye and grapes, since they are all from the left side, and Se’arot [hair] do not hang on them. Wine is upper Ima. Rye is the left side, to which Levites grip, and they come out from the upper wine, from upper Ima, and hairs do not hang on them. For this reason, when Levites come up to the left, they must remove all their hair.
It is known that the illumination of Hochma is extended from the left line of Bina, which is wine. The left line of ZA, which is rye, receives the illumination of Hochma from the left line of Bina, and both bestow illumination of Hochma to Malchut, who is called “grapes.”
The Se’arot [hairs] are extended from the Yod, which enters the light of Bina and becomes Avir [air], the dot of Holam. At that time, the Hochma does not shine. When the dot of Shuruk, the left line, is revealed, the Yod exits the Avir of Bina, who returns to being Ohr [light], and the Hochma in her is revealed. At that time, the Se’arot disappear since the Yod has already come out from the Avir of Bina, which is the root of the Se’arot.
In a similar manner, when the illumination of Hochma is extended to the left line of ZA, where the Levites grip, the Levites must pass a razor over all their flesh and remove the hairs from them. Also, when the illumination of Hochma reaches Malchut during the coupling with ZA, the Se’arot are removed from her.
However, the hermit, who is adhered to the right, Holam, where the Yod is in the Avir of Bina, must therefore let the hair of his head grow long, in a way that from the phase of the right, the hairs grow, and from the illumination of Hochma on the left, the hairs fall down or are shaved.
127. Grapes are the bottom Ima, Malchut, who collects wine and rye to her, illumination of Hochma from the left line of Bina and Malchut. For this reason, the hermit separates entirely from the left side, from wine and rye and grapes, so as not to show an act of them with him. Grapes, which are Malchut, hair and beard do not hang on them, since the Nukva, Malchut, must cut off her hair, the body’s hair, when she comes to make a coupling with the male, ZA, and there is no beard in her.
For this reason, the hermit, who is from the right, which is the root of the hairs, is the opposite: The hairs of the head and the beard are hanging from him and he is forbidden to shave them. He is called as it is written, a “Nazirite [hermit] of God,” meaning separated from the name God, left, and not a hermit of HaVaYaH, right, since he is completely separate from the judgment. Nazirite [hermit] means separated.
128. It is written, “and make atonement for him because he sinned on the soul.” The soul is grapes, Malchut, who are called “soul.” The hermit sinned against Malchut because his side is wine and rye, since Malchut is built from the left, and the hermit removed from her the place of the judgment, the illumination of the left. Why did he sin with this? For he removed the judgment from the soul, the illumination of Hochma in her, which is drawn with the judgments of the left.
129. Therefore, when a hermit adheres so much to the right, why is it written about him afterwards “make atonement for him”? It is because after he completes the days of his abstinence, he comes to connect with the three phases of the left line and permit him to wine, rye, and grapes. These places do not accept him until he consults with a priest and he will make atonement for him, since at first, he threw them out because he abstained from them. Now that he has come to them, he must connect with the corrections of atonement, and they will accept him.
130. Samson, who was a hermit of God, why was he punished? He deserved to be punished because he had intercourse with a daughter of a foreign god, Delilah, where he should have connected to what was worthy of him. He, who was holy, mixed holiness with the daughter of a foreign god and left his place that was worthy of holiness. This is why he was punished.
131. There are some who say that Samson has no part in that world because he said, “Let my soul die with the Philistines,” and he gave up his portion with the portion of the Philistines, that his soul would die with them in that world. This is what they would declare about the hermit: “Go away,” they would say to the hermit, “walk around, do not approach the vineyard.”