Ba'alat Gevurot

אחד A woman's hair is related to the dinim (5 judgments) that may may be brought down upon a man through being married to a woman. When these "5 strengths" of a woman are unrectified (exist as dinim focused into malchut), they can have negative consequences for the man and for the family.

Think of it as similar to the blessings or the curses that can come to a man married to a bat kohen. A certain caliber of man (a ben Torah or a talmid chacham, etc.) will receive the blessings through being married to a bat kohen. A man who is not of relatively high moral character will receive curses through the bat kohen. Of course, these curses are brought down to turn the rasha into a tzadik. Nevertheless, the dynamic exists.

Like in the case of being married to a bat kohen, the hair of a woman's head is the channel through which curses or blessings flow to her husband based upon her own spiritual status (as opposed to the man's status in the case of a bat kohen). A woman who has basically been unchallenged in life likely has not been presented with the opportunity to rectify the 5 judgments (through which come curses) and to transform them into 5 strengths (through which come blessings). The process of transforming the dinim into gevurot is called in kabbalah sweetening the judgments.

On the other hand, a woman who has been challenged by life and has risen to its challenges, likely has rectified and transformed the dinim to gevurot. Consequently, for men who are significantly involved with theurgy on behalf of Klal Yisrael, it would behoove the unchallenged woman to shave her head (to attenuate the curses that may actualize through her feminine energies, i.e., the dinim in malchut). In contradistinction - the woman who has overcome challenges should not cut her hair and should allow the blessings to come into the world through her gevurot.

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