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The Secret of Skin

Kabbalah teaches that G-d makes purity emerge even out of impurity.

From Shenei Luchot HaBrit by Rabbi Isaiah Horowitz

When a Woman Conceives and Gives Birth

A state of lessening is experienced when childbirth, which occasions a high degree of holiness, is over.

Translated and annotated by Rahmiel-Hayyim Drizin from PaRDeS HaBahir

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Birth-Pangs of the Messianic Era

The Final Redemption will come via our merits.

From the Ohr HaChaim commentary by Rabbi Chaim (ben Moshe) ibn Attar

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From Female to Male

One should pray as if he were awakening the dawn, and not the dawn awakening him.

From the teachings of the Baal Shem Tov

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