Kabbalah zu Schemuel I 12:9

far from pearls is her selling' - her selling? It should say her value! Rather, every person who does not cling to her completely, and is not completely with her, she sells them and locks them in the hands of other peoples. As you say 'and the children of Israel abandoned Ad-nai, and He sold them to the hands of Sisera' (I Samuel 12:9). And so they are all far away from the upper sacred pearls (secrets of Torah), that were not divided among them. This is 'and her purchase is far away from pearls'.

29. Rabbi Yosi opened the discussion saying: “And when they forgot Hashem their Elohim” (I Shmuel 12:9), and “And they forsook Hashem” (Shoftim 2:13). AND HE ASKS: What is: “And when they forgot,” and “And they forsook”? AND HE ANSWERS: They repelled from themselves the Holy Covenant, they circumcised but did not uncover until Deborah came and offered this, BY INTRODUCING PRIAH (‘UNCOVERING OF THE CORONA’) throughout Yisrael, as it says, “In time of tumultuous strife (Heb. pra’ot) in Yisrael, when the people willingly offered themselves; praise Hashem” (Shoftim 5:2).