BINAH: KIDDUSH LEVANAH קִדּוּשׁ לְבָנָה
KIDDUSH LEVANAH קִדּוּשׁ לְבָנָה :
– PRAYER OF CONSESSION ON FIRST QUARTER MOON
- WHAT IS “THE LORD IS HIGH
AND THE LOW WILL SEE”
I heard on Shabbat Terumah, March 5, 1949, Tel-Aviv
“The Lord is high and the low will see.” How can there be
equivalence with the Creator when man is the receiver and the
Creator is the giver? The verse says to that, “The Lord is high
and the low…”
If one annuls oneself, then one has no authority that
separates him from the Creator. In that state one “will see,”
meaning he is imparted Mochin de Hochma, “and the haughty
He knoweth from afar.” However, a proud one, meaning one
who has one’s own authority, is distanced, since one lacks the
equivalence.
Lowness is not considered one’s lowering of oneself before
others. This is humbleness, and one feels wholeness in this
work. Rather, lowness means that the world despises one.
Precisely when people despise, it is considered lowness. At that
time one does not feel any wholeness, for it is a law that what
people think affects a person.
Therefore, if people respect him, he feels whole; and those
that people despise, they think of themselves as low.
-Baal HaSulam, Shamati, page 83-84