SUNDAY PRAYER: TIFERET-KIDDUSH LEVANAH קִדּוּשׁ לְבָנָה

READING: BETWEEN AFTER MIDNIGHT AND DAWN SUNDAY

KIDDUSH LEVANAH קִדּוּשׁ לְבָנָה : 🌴

– PRAYER OF CONCESSION ON FULL MOON

SHORT READING FROM SHAMATI

This seems like coercion, meaning that they have no other
choice since presently there is no revealed Hochma. Instead, now
that there is revealed Hochma there is room for choosing of their
own free will. In other words, they choose a path of Hassadim
more than the left, which is the disclosure of Hochma.
This means that the disclosure was only so they could reveal
the importance of Hassadim, that it was more important to
them than Hochma. It is as our sages said, “thus far coercively,
henceforth willingly.” And this is the meaning of “the Jews
ordained, and took upon them.” It follows that the disclosure
of Hochma came now only so they would be able to receive the
method of the Jew willingly.

-Baal HaSulam, Shamati, page 119

POSTED IN ARVUT BY: Celina Syuy