🌕 SUNDAY PRAYER: HOD-KIDDUSH LEVANAH קִדּוּשׁ לְבָנָה

READING: BETWEEN AFTER MIDNIGHT AND DAWN SATURDAY

KIDDUSH LEVANAH קִדּוּשׁ לְבָנָה : 🌳

– PRAYER OF CONCESSION ON FULL MOON

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

THE FEAR OF GOD IS HIS TREASURE

I heard on March 31, 1947

There is a rule that the cow wants to feed more than the
calf wants to eat. This is because His wish is to do good to His
creatures, and the reason for the Tzimtzum (Restriction), we must
believe, is for our own good. And the reason must be that we
do not have the right vessels where the bounty can be, like the
corporeal vessels, which must be right for what is placed there.
Hence, we must say that if we add the vessels, there will be
something to hold the added bounty.
The answer that comes to that is that, in His treasury, the
Creator has only the treasure of fear of God (Berachot 33).
Yet, we should interpret what fear is, that it is the vessel, and
the treasure is made of this vessel, and all the important things
are placed in it. He said that fear is as it is written about Moses:
our sages said (Berachot p.7), “The reward for ‘And Moses hid
his face for he was afraid to look,’ he was rewarded with ‘the
similitude of the Lord doth he behold.’”

-Baal HaSulam, Shamati, page 124

POSTED IN ARVUT BY: Celina Syuy