We need to experience the states called “day” and “night” so that we can integrate both into our goal. If we work in this way, all the efforts we make during the convention will accumulate to a degree sufficient for achieving the goal, and we will reveal the Creator within our common connection. This defines the success of the convention.

The state of night is different from the state of day in which a person is full of strength, inspiration, feelings, and clear understanding of the states they are going through. Still, we must try to gather and unify all the states we go through into one shared state—evening and morning, one day—where everything is good.

Day is when I feel how the light illuminates my relationships with others, and through them my relationship with the Creator. Everything is filled with the light of the day, the light of the Torah.

Night, however, is different. When night is sent to us from above, we must learn to behave in a way where all our thoughts, desires, and actions are only for the sake of accepting the lack of light and reaching unity, which reveals new desires within us.

We learn from both states night and day, which in the end must complement each other, merge into one day where “darkness will shine like light,” and all the states we have passed through will serve our attainment and adhesion.

The light will shine like day because in both darkness and light we must reveal the Creator’s attitude toward us, understand what He wants from us, and draw closer to each other until we reach complete unity (congress).

It is said that a person must stand guard both day and night, meaning they must integrate all states, both open like day and concealed like night, until within all of them together our connection with the Creator is revealed.

During the day we feel our connection with the Creator openly, within reason, through our striving to draw closer to Him. This is the work of the day. But the work at night is entirely different because at night the Creator is concealed, which makes it difficult for us to perceive and feel Him, and to turn to Him.

Yet whether it is day or night, no matter the conditions we find ourselves in, we must strive toward the upper force and try to invest everything we have—our hearts, desires, actions, thoughts, and prayers—so that we can unite together and draw the Creator into the center of our connection.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/18/25, Preparation for Opening the Heart at the Congress

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