Meanwhile, behold a young man happened by them, driving a donkey after cattle. They said to him: ‘What is:... and he left his garment with her etc.?’ But the word ’aqrav (scorpion) is composed of: ’aqar (uprooted) and the letter Beiyt ב (house) – for it has uprooted the house of the Shekhinah. When it wants to be conjoined with the righteous, one is required to desist from it and not to benefit from it, and even
from its skin. “Go, Go!” we say to the Nazarite: “Take a circuitous route! Do not approach the vineyard!”iiBT Shabbat 13a It is this that is written:... and he left his garment with her... – the skin of the evil inclination, and this is the garment of the snake – idol worship – when it comes to conjoin with the righteous, and it says, “lie with me” – the brazen whore – then it is stated of the ‘sign of covenant’ of circumcision:... and he fled and he went outside.]