🌕 MONDAY 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

Thus, one’s desire to remember that the Creator is the
cause for keeping Torah and Mitzvot. This is so because it
follows that the reason and the cause to keep the Torah and
Mitzvot is the Creator, as without it one cannot cleave to the
Creator, since “He and I cannot dwell in the same abode,” due
to the disparity of form.
The reason that the reward and punishment is not revealed,
that we must only believe in reward and punishment, is
because the Creator wants everyone to work for Him, and not
for themselves. This is discerned as disparity of form from the
Creator. If the reward and punishment were revealed, one would
work because of self-love, meaning so that the Creator would love
him, or because of self-hate, meaning for fear that the Creator
would hate him. It follows that the reason for the work is only
the person, not the Creator, and the Creator wants that He will
be the compelling reason.

-Baal HaSulam, Shamati, page 126

POSTED IN ARVUT BY: Celina Syuy