FRIDAY PRAYER: NETZACH-KIDDUSH LEVANAH קִדּוּשׁ לְבָנָה

READING: BETWEEN AFTERNOON – SUNSET FRIDAY

KIDDUSH LEVANAH קִדּוּשׁ לְבָנָה : 🌿

– PRAYER OF CONCESSION ON FIRST QUARTER MOON

CONCERNING THE VITALITY OF KEDUSHA

It is as our sages said, “Anyone who is saddened for the public
is rewarded and sees the comfort of the public.” The public is
called “The Holy Shechina (Divinity),” since public means a
collective, meaning the assembly of Israel, since Malchut is the
collection of all the souls.
Since one does not want any reward for oneself, but wants
to work for the Creator, which is called “raising Divinity from
the dust,” so it will not be lowered so, meaning that they do
not want to work for the Creator, but all that one sees that will
produce benefit for oneself, then there is fuel for the work. And
what concerns the benefit of the Creator, and one does not see
what reward he will receive in return, the body objects to this
work because it feels a taste of dust in this work.
Such a person does want to work for the Creator, but the
body resists it. And one asks of the Creator to give him power
to nonetheless be able to work to raise Divinity from the dust.
Hence, one is awarded the Panim (face) of the Face of the Creator,
which appear to him, and the concealment departs from him.

-Baal HaSulam, Shamati, page 110

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