זוהר, האדרא רבא י״אZohar, Idra Rabba 11

Segment 1א׳

קָם רִבִּי יִצְחָק, פָּתַח וְאָמַר, (מיכה ז׳:כ׳) מִי אֵל כָּמוֹךָ נוֹשֵׂא עָוֹן וְגוֹ', יָשׁוּב יְרַחֲמֵנוּ וְגוֹ', תִּתֵּן אֱמֶת לְיַעֲקֹב וְגוֹ'. תָּאנָא, תְּלֵיסַר מְכִילִין אִתְחָזוּן הָכָא, וְכֻלְּהוּ נָפְקִין מִתְּלֵיסַר מַבּוּעִין דִּמְשַׁח רְבוּת דְּתִיקּוּנֵי דִּיקְנָא קַדִּישָׁא, עַתִּיקָא דְּעַתִּיקִין. טְמִירָא דִּטְמִירִין. תָּנָא, תִּקּוּנָא דְּדִיקְנָא טָמִיר וְסָתִים, טָמִיר וְלָא טָמִיר. סָתִים וְלָא סָתִים. בְּתִקּוּנוֹי יְדִיעַ וְלָא יְדִיעַ.

R. Isaac rose, opened and said: “Who is a God like You, that pardons the iniquity,” etc.; “He will return, He will have compassion upon us,” etc.; “You will give truth to Jacob,” etc. (Micah 7, 20). It has been taught: thirteen attributes are seen here, and all of them issue from the thirteen springs of the oil of anointing of the adornments of the holy beard, of the Ancient of Ancients, the Hidden of the Hidden. It has been taught: the adornment of the beard is hidden and concealed — hidden and not hidden, concealed and not concealed; in its adornments known and not known.

Segment 2ב׳

תִּקּוּנָא קַדְמָאָה. הָא תָּנֵינָן, דְּכָל שַׂעֲרָא וְשַׂעֲרָא וְכָל נִימָא וְנִימָא לָא מִתְדַּבְּקָא לְחֲבֵרְתָּה. וְשָׁאֲרוּ נִימִין דְּדִיקְנָא לְאַתְקְנָא, מְתִקּוּנָא דִּשְׂעַר רֵישָׁא.

The first adornment. As we have learnt: each and every hair and each and every strand does not cleave to its fellow. And the strands of the beard began to be set in order from the adornment of the hair of the head.

Segment 3ג׳

הָכָא אִית לְאִסְתַּכְּלָא, אִי כָּל נִימִין דִּשְׂעַר רֵישָׁא, וְנִימִין דְּדִיקְנָא יַקִּירָא עִלָּאָה, בְּחַד נִימָא אִתְכְּלָלוּ, (ס"א בחד מתקלא אתקלו) אֲמַאי אִלֵּין אֲרִיכִין, וְאִלֵּין לָא אֲרִיכִין. אֲמַאי (ק"מ) נִימִין דְּדִיקְנָא לָא אֲרִיכִין כּוּלֵי הַאי, וְקַשְׁיָין. וְאִלֵּין דְּרֵישָׁא לָא קַשְׁיָין, אֶלָּא שְׁעִיעִין.

Here there is need to look closely. If all the strands of the hair of the head and the strands of the precious supernal beard were included in one strand (a variant reads: were weighed in one balance), why are these long and those not long? Why (folio 140) are the strands of the beard not so long, and hard, while those of the head are not hard, but smooth?