Likutei Moharan 29:12/ליקוטי מוהר"ן כ״ט:י״ב

112. The following relates to section 8.

2Thus, although wine is harmful for a woman whose menstrual flow is heavy and her period irregular—corresponding to, “‘wine when it is red,’ for its end is blood,” and, “Wine enters, secrets emerge”—nevertheless, her cure is <to drink> wine looked at by a true tzaddik.

3The reason is that the eyes correspond to the hair, for the “seven coatings of the eyes” (Tikkuney Zohar #70, p.128a) are an aspect of the “seven locks of his head” (Judges 16:19), which are the mentalities. This is because hair is the extraneous matter of the mentalities. It therefore corresponds to the “seven locks,” which are the seven attributes that pass through and cross as thoughts of the mind. For the thoughts of the mind are in accordance with a person’s attributes; the attribute to which a person presently adheres determines the thoughts that pass through and cross his mind. Thus “seven maChL’Phot (locks) of his head” has the connotation of ChaLaPh (pass through) and cross.

4Therefore, when one blemishes the hair, sight—the “seven coatings of the eyes”—is blemished. Thus it is said of Shimshon, who blemished the “seven locks of his head,” that “the Philistines gouged out his eyes” (ibid. 16:21).

5And so, by means of the “seven coatings of the eyes” we rectify the “seven locks of his head”—these are the hairs, in an aspect of, “The hair of his head is like whitened wool” (Daniel 7:9). This corresponds to the crimson-colored strap which whitens the redness of the three hundred sixty-five gidim, as in, “Though they be red like crimson, they shall be white as wool.” Thus through this, the redness, which is an aspect of menstrual blood, is rectified.

6And this is (Psalms 118:5), “I called out to God from the MeiTZaR (the narrow straits)”—the same letters as TZeMeR (wool). This is explained in the Kavanot. Study there and understand.