זוהר, האדרא רבא מ׳Zohar, Idra Rabba 40

Segment 1א׳

תִּקּוּנָא תְּשִׁיעָאָה. דְּאִתְמַשְּׁכָן (ס"א דמתחברן) שַׂעְרֵי בְּשִׁקּוּלָא מַלְיָא, עִם אִינּוּן שַׂעְרֵי דְּתַּלְיָין, כֻּלְּהוּ בְּשִׁקּוּלָא שַׁפִּיר, כְּחַד גִּיבָּר תַּקִּיף, מָארֵי נַצְחָן קְרָבַיָּיא. מִשּׁוּם דְּכֻלְּהוּ שַׂעְרֵי אִתְמַשְּׁכָן בָּתַר אִינּוּן דְּתַלְיָין. וּכְלָלָא דְּכֻלְּהוּ בְּאִינּוּן דְּתַלְיָין. וְכֹלָּא אִתְמְשַׁךְ, (חסר כאן) וְעַל דָּא כְּתִיב, (משלי כ׳:כ״ט) תִּפְאֶרֶת בַּחוּרִים כֹּחָם. (ונראה על הים כבחור טוב הדא הוא דכתיב) כְּתִיב (שיר השירים ה׳:ט״ו) בָּחוּר כָּאֲרָזִים, כְּגִיבָּר עָבִיד גְּבוּרָאן, וְדָא הוּא תִּפְאֶרֶת, חֵילָא וּגְבוּרְתָּא וְרַחֲמֵי.

The ninth adornment: that the hairs are drawn (a variant reads: are joined) in full balance with those hairs that hang, all of them in a fair balance, like a mighty warrior, a master of victorious battles. For all the hairs are drawn after those that hang, and the sum of them all is in those that hang. And all is drawn (Here something is missing.) And of this it is written, “The tiferet of young men (bachurim) is their strength” (Prov. 20, 29). (a variant adds: and He appeared at the sea like a goodly young man; this is what is written.) It is written, “excellent (bachur) as the cedars” (S. S. 5, 15) — like a mighty man who performs mighty deeds. And this is tiferet: strength, and might, and mercy.

Segment 2ב׳

תָּנָא, אָמַר רַבִּי שִׁמְעוֹן כָּל הָנֵי תִּקּוּנִין, וְכָל הָנֵי מִלִּין, בָּעֵינָא לְגַלָּאָה לְמָארֵיהוֹן דְּאִתְּקָלוּ בְּמַתְקְלָא, וְלָא לְאִינּוּן דְּלָא עָאלוּ (נ"א דעאלו ולא נפקו) אֶלָּא לְאִלֵּין דְּעָאלוּ וְנַפְקוּ, דְּכָל מָאֵן דְּעָיִיל וְלָא נָפִיק, טַב לֵיהּ דְּלָא אִבְרֵי.

It has been taught: R. Simeon said: All these adornments and all these words I wish to reveal to those who are masters of them, who have been weighed in the balance; and not to those who have not entered (a variant reads: who entered and did not come out), but to those who have entered and come out. For whoever enters and does not come out, it were better for him that he had not been created.