🌕 TUESDAY PRAYER: HOD-KIDDUSH LEVANAH קִדּוּשׁ לְבָנָה

READING: BETWEEN AFTER MIDNIGHT AND DAWN MONDAY

KIDDUSH LEVANAH קִדּוּשׁ לְבָנָה : 🌿

– PRAYER OF CONCESSION ON FULL MOON

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

FAITH IN THE RAV, WHAT IS THE MEASURE
I heard in 1943

It is known that when one is still not purified, one’s Torah
becomes a potion of death to him. And why does it say, “Not
rewarded, his Torah becomes a potion of death to him”? This is
because all the teachings that one learns or hears will not bring
him any benefit to make one able to be imparted the discernment
of life, which is Dvekut (Adhesion) with the Life of Lives. On the
contrary, one is drawn constantly farther from the Life of Lives,
since all that one does is only for the needs of the body, called
“receiving for oneself,” which is considered separation.
This means that through one’s deeds, one becomes more
separated from the life of lives, and this is called “the potion
of death,” since it brings him death and not life. It means that
one becomes ever farther from bestowal, called “equivalence
of form with the Creator,” by way of, “As He is Merciful, so
are you merciful.”

-Baal HaSulam, Shamati, page 131

POSTED IN ARVUT BY: Celina Syuy