🌕 FRIDAY PRAYER: MALCHUT-KIDDUSH LEVANAH קִדּוּשׁ לְבָנָה

READING: BETWEEN AFTER MIDNIGHT AND DAWN WEDNESDAY

KIDDUSH LEVANAH קִדּוּשׁ לְבָנָה : 🌳

– PRAYER OF GRATITUDE ON NEW MOON

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

AND THEY SEWED FIG-LEAVES
I heard on Shavat, 26, February 16, 1947

But when the shade comes because of a sin, it is called
“images, image makers, and sorcerers,” which is “God hath
made even the one as well as the other.” This is because as there
are forces in Kedusha to make changes, and to show signs and
omens, so there are forces in the Sitra Achra. This is why the
righteous do not use these forces, because of “one as well as
the other,” so as not to give strength to the Sitra Achra to do
as they do.
Only on exceptional occasions does the Creator not give
the Sitra Achra the same force that is in Kedusha. It is like
Elijah on Mt. Carmel, who said, “Hear me” so they will not
say that it is witchcraft, meaning that there is the strength for
concealment of the Upper Light.
Hence, girdles that come from the side of the fig leaves,
which is from the sin of the Tree of Knowledge, these leaves,
meaning this shade that comes due to the sin, since the cause
is not from the side of Kedusha, when they choose to take shade
by themselves, but they take the shade because they have no
other counsel, this can work only to exit the state of descent.
Afterwards, however, the work must begin anew.

-Baal HaSulam, Shamati, page 129

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