WEDNESDAY PRAYER: MALCHUT-KIDDUSH LEVANAH קִדּוּשׁ לְבָנָה

READING: BETWEEN AFTERNOON – SUNSET tuesday

KIDDUSH LEVANAH קִדּוּשׁ לְבָנָה : 🌳

– PRAYER OF GRATITUDE ON NEW MOON

CONCERNING THE VITALITY OF KEDUSHA

As we see, when one works, even in corporeality, the order
is that during the work one is unhappy because he exerts
himself. And one can only continue in the work because the
future shines for him, when he will receive the payment for his
work. This shines for a person in the present, and this is why
he can continue the work.
However, if one is unable to picture the reward that he will
receive in the future, one must take pleasure from the future, not
from the reward that he will receive for his work in the future.
In other words, he will not enjoy the reward, but he will not feel
suffering from the exertion. This is what he enjoys now, in the
present, what he will have in the future.
The future shines for him in the present, in that soon the
work will be over, meaning the time that he must work, and he
will receive rest. Thus, the pleasure of rest that one will ultimately
receive still shines for him. In other words, one’s profit will be
that he will not be afflicted by what he now feels from the work.
And this gives him the strength to be able to work now.
If one is unable to picture for oneself that soon he will be rid
of the torments that he suffers now, one will come to despair and
sadness, and that state can bring one to take one’s own life.

-Baal HaSulam, Shamati, page 108

POSTED IN ARVUT BY: Celina Syuy