3. And therefore it is written about Bilaam: "and Elohim met (Heb. vayikar) Bilaam" (Bemidbar 23:4). The word 'vayikar' denotes impurity, NAMELY, NOCTURNAL POLLUTION AS MENTIONED ABOVE. You may say that Elohim is, WHICH IMPLIES HOLINESS; yet the Holy One, blessed be He, supplied him with that place of defilement, to be defiled in it, so that he (Bilaam) would be defiled by the same grade to which he cleaved. What did Bilaam do? He planned by the offerings he sacrificed to rise TO HOLINESS. Immediately the Holy One, blessed be He, supplied him with that place OF DEFILEMENT. He said to him, 'Here is impurity upon you, as befits you.' Hence it is written: "and Elohim met Bilaam."
3. וְע"ד בְּבִלְעָם כְּתִיב, וַיִּקָּר אֱלֹהִים אֶל בִּלְעָם. וַיִּקָּר לִישָׁנָא דִּמְסָאֲבָא נָקַט. וְאִי תֵּימָא, הָא כְּתִיב אֱלֹהִים. אֶלָּא קוּדְשָׁא בְּרִיךְ הוּא אַזְמִין לֵיהּ הַהוּא אֲתָר דִּמְסָאֲבָא, לְאִסְתַּאֲבָא בֵּיהּ, בְּהַהוּא דַּרְגָּא דְּאִיהוּ אִתְדַּבָּק לְאִסְתַּאֲבָא בֵּיהּ. מָה עֲבַד בִּלְעָם. אִיהוּ חָשִׁיב בְּאִינּוּן קָרְבָּנִין לְסַלְּקָא לְעֵילָּא, מִיַּד זַמִין לֵיהּ קוּדְשָׁא בְּרִיךְ הוּא הַהוּא אֲתָר. א"ל הָא מִסְאֲבוּ לְגַבָּךְ, כְּמָה דְּאִתְחָזֵי לָךְ, וְע"ד וַיִּקָּר אֱלֹהִים אֶל בִּלְעָם.