Кохелет 4:1 Каббала: Ohr Ne'erav & Zohar

The sixth virtue [of Kabbalah]: There are words in the Torah which are improper and ungrammatical according to [their] simple meaning. Thus the Torah states, Inscribe this in a document as a reminder, and read it aloud to Joshua (Exod. 17:14). By the [Temple] service! One of those who aspired to [divine] service asked me, “What does it mean, and read it aloud to Joshua? [Scripture] should have stated, ‘speak to Joshua.’ For and read it aloud [seems to] indicate that he [actually] wrote the section and placed it, God forbid, into his ears.” I replied to him in a plain manner that the Torah speaks in the language of the sons of men, for thus would a man speak to his fellow concerning the strengthening of the [divine] command. He replied, “I will not believe that there is not something here that is not known to us, through which the wording would become proper.” I said [of him] to one who knows the science [of Kabbalah], “To [men like] these I apply [the verse] [Behold,] the tears of the oppressed, and they have no comforter (Eccles. 4:1),” [referring] to those for whom the words of Torah are oppressed and stolen from their minds. [Then] I explained the matter in the way of truth, as will become clear in its place, with God’s help.

“To sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power.” Who is this “strange nation”? Hapless is the soul when she leaves this world after being attached to a man who has turned away from the right path. She desires to ascend to the heights, in the midst of the holy hosts; for holy hosts stand along the way to Paradise, and “strange” hosts line the other way, to Gehenna.

Thus, when a man steals his neighbour’s wife, either openly or secretly, and a child is born of such adulterous union, and the Holy One has perforce to fashion its body and give it form, then that child is indeed “an oppressed one who is made such”, literally, in despite of the Almighty. Solomon reflected on this and said: “I consider the sad fate of these hapless oppressed ones who have been ‘made’”