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It’s the same with the principle we’ve just learned; there is no light without kli. Remember
this very well. There is no question of light when there is no kli. We can’t know anything
about coffee when you haven’t tasted it.
I’ve experienced it once in my early days in the Ural. I went with my mother to visit someone
in the hospital. It was a girl, an adolescent of a village nearby and I knew what a banana was,
but she didn’t. She was fourteen, fifteen I think.
My mother gave her a banana and she grabbed it and thanked my mother. But I saw that she
didn’t know what to do with it. She looked at it and thought that it was a toy or something
else… my mother also saw it and said that she had to eat it.
Oké, but she didn’t know how. My mother started to peel it so she could finally eat it. She
didn’t even know what it was. After she had eaten it, she knew what it was and she had a kli
for a banana. Also we have to develop our spiritual kli.
So light is also a pleasure. A banana had for her absolutely no pleasure before she had a kli,
before she tasted it. Before that, the banana did not attract, appeal her. There was no light
for her, light is pleasure.
Or coffee, spiritual pleasure. So the law is: there is no light without a kli. And now the second
principle.)
ב) To make kli, we need light, and that is called day (so we need light to make kli, which is
called day. So day is light. The state ‘day/light’ makes in a man kli, to taste what day is.)
םייחה לכש ,שיגרמש ונייה ,הלילשה תניחבב םוי תצקל הכז רבכ םדאה םא עודמ ,ןיבהל שי לבא
,'המ קחורמ אוהש הזב ,םירוסי שיגרהל ליחתמ אוה הזלו ,'ה תוקיבדל הכזי םאב קר אוה ולש
םייחב קר תויהל ךירצ םייחה לכש ונייה ,הילעה לש ובצממ לופיש ,םרוגה אוה ימ ןכ םא .ל"נכ
,םישנא ולאמ קחוש היה דימתש בצמל ,תולפשה בצמל לפנ םואתפו ,ולש תווקתה לכ הזו ,םיינחור
אצמנ ומצעב אוה וישכעו .תוימהב תוואת תואלמל יולימה גישהל אוה ,םהלש םייחה תוקת לכש
.םינוזינ םהש תונוזמ
םתואמ ןוזינו ,םתציחמב םתיא
Page 2, line 13 – but we have to understand, that if a man is worthy to experience a bit of
day, then why does he experience it as night. Because he feels that all his life now only
depends if he’s worthy to merge with the Creator and this causes him sorrow, (what kind of
sorrow) that he’s far from the Creator, as said above.
(And when does he feel this? When he’s in a state of night. The feeling of night is a sign that
a bit of light already shines at you, but it’s only the initial phase. And only in this phase a
person feels sorrow, because he knows that he’s far from experiencing the Creator and this
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