🌕 SUNDAY PRAYER: HESED-KIDDUSH LEVANAH קִדּוּשׁ לְבָנָה

READING: BETWEEN AFTER MIDNIGHT AND DAWN SATURDAY

KIDDUSH LEVANAH קִדּוּשׁ לְבָנָה : 🌳

– PRAYER OF GRATITUDE ON NEW MOON

ACT OF GRATITUDE: READING OF AN EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK OF SHAMATI

THE FEAR OF GOD IS HIS TREASURE

I heard on March 31, 1947

A treasure is a vessel in which the possession is placed. Grain, for
example, is placed in the barn, and precious things are placed in
a more heavily guarded place. Thus, every received thing is called
by its correlation to the Light, and the vessel must be able to
receive the things. It is as we learn that there is no Light without
a vessel, and this applies even in corporeality.
Yet, what is the vessel in spirituality, in which we can receive
the spiritual bounty that the Creator wants to give, which will
match the Light? That is, as in corporeality, where the vessel
needs a correlation with the object that is placed in it?
For example: we cannot say that we have treasures of wine,
which we poured in new sacks to keep the wine from turning
sour, or that we have taken a lot of flour in barrels. Instead, there
is a conduct that the container of wine is barrels and jars, and
the container for the flour is sacks and not barrels, etc..
Thus, there is a question, what is the spiritual container,
the vessels from which we can make a big treasure of the
Upper Bounty?

-Baal HaSulam, Shamati, page 124

POSTED IN ARVUT BY: Celina Syuy