🌕 TUESDAY PRAYER: GEVURAH-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

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

The leaf refers to the shade that it puts on the light, meaning
on the sun. There are two shades: one comes from the side of
Kedusha (Sanctity), and the other comes due to a sin.
Thus, there are two kinds of concealment of the Light. As the
shade conceals the sun in corporeality, so there is concealment
on the Upper Light, called “sun,” which comes from the side of
Kedusha, namely because of a choice. This is as it is written about
Moses, “And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look.”
The shade comes because of fear, and fear means that one
is afraid to receive the bounty, that he may not be able to aim
in order to bestow. It follows that the shade comes because of
Kedusha, meaning that one wants to cleave to the Creator.

-Baal HaSulam, Shamati, page 127

POSTED IN ARVUT BY: Celina Syuy