Editing Sefiras HaYesod (section)

== Its Significance in Divine Service ==
The significance of this attribute in divine service was explained by Rabbi Avraham HaMalach: "Yesod is the connection to complete any matter from the five attributes we mentioned. For example, when a person hasn't seen his beloved friend or son for several years, and the time comes in his thoughts or mind to give him a great gift or to see him in person - with every mile that brings him closer to his son, his love grows stronger. When he arrives in the city where his son is, his love becomes extremely great, thinking 'Here I am in the city where my son is, and I will see him and give him the great gift I want to give him.'

This pleasure that comes from completing the meeting with his son and giving him the gift - this is called unity and connection of that pleasure and love that he has from completing the kindness with his son by giving him the gift. He connects his thoughts and mind until he cannot think of anything else because of the great pleasure he has in completing it. This is why it's called connection - even if his enemy approaches him, he cannot overcome him because of the greatness of the pleasure he has in his thoughts and mind about completing the meeting with his son and giving him the great gift.

Similarly, he doesn't allow himself to think about or glorify himself with any glory he has, nor to triumph in anything he wants to triumph in. He cannot bring to mind the splendor of any other glorious thing, nor can he acknowledge anything else, because this pleasure is so great in his thoughts and mind that it constrains his thoughts, intellect, and mind so that nothing else from all those attributes can enter his mind, due to the greatness of the pleasure he has in thinking 'Here comes the time when I will see myself with my son and give him the great gift.'"

He continues in his holy words: "Now, connection is also an attribute in itself, separate from those attributes, like the pleasure of unions that the Creator placed in humans and all creatures, and also the pleasure of connection that tzaddikim have in serving the Creator. For when they see and know the Creator's greatness and understand the magnitude of love one must have for the Creator who gave us the Torah and 613 mitzvot so that a lowly creature like man can serve the King of kings, the great and awesome G-d, they also have this pleasure until their thought becomes connected with fear of the blessed Creator and His love.

The first type of connection we mentioned represents the lowliness of the attribute in its fall until it reaches the lowest of the low, yet nevertheless the Creator made it necessary for the world. The second type of connection of this attribute, when it is in great holiness, is 'one opposite the other.'"