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THEY SHALL NOT MAKE BALDNESS UPON THEIR HEAD. R. Jose said: ‘The reason is that on the head of the supernal Priest is the holy oil of anointing, the removal of which would cause baldness; and therefore the priest below must perform an action symbolical of this.’1Here follows in the original a passage expanding this idea in the highly allusive and untranslatable style of the Midrash Hane’elam.