THURSDAY PRAYER: GEVURAH-KIDDUSH LEVANAH קִדּוּשׁ לְבָנָה

READING: BETWEEN AFTERNOON – SUNSET WEDNESDAY

KIDDUSH LEVANAH קִדּוּשׁ לְבָנָה : 🌿

– PRAYER OF CONCESSION ON LAST QUARTER MOON

CONCERNING THE VITALITY OF KEDUSHA

We must know that it is a rule that one cannot live without
liveliness and pleasure, since it stems from the root of creation,
which is His desire to do good to His creatures. Hence, every
creature cannot exist without liveliness and pleasure. Therefore,
every creature must go and look for a place from which it can
receive delight and pleasure.
But the pleasure is received in three times: in the past, in
the present, and in the future. However, the principal reception
of pleasure is in the present. Although we see that one receives
pleasure from the past and from the future, too, it is because the
past and the future shine in the present.
Therefore, if one does not find a sensation of pleasure in
the present, one receives liveliness from the past, and he can
tell the others how he was happy in past times. One can receive
sustenance from that in the present, or picture for oneself that
he hopes that in the future he will be happy. But measuring the
sensation of the pleasure from the past and the future depends
on the extent to which they shine for one in the present. Also,
we must know that this occurs both in corporeal pleasures and
in spiritual pleasures.

-Baal HaSulam, Shamati, page 107

POSTED IN ARVUT BY: Celina Syuy