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Clear … Clear as Day, Learn at Night

Sefer Moshe Shimon

September 14, 2025

With the help of the One King, the Living G-d of the worlds.

Sefer

Kaf

Elul — 5785

The book is intended only for those who understand the matter; please be careful not to give it to someone unworthy.

From the first generation — mistakes may occur, and, thank G-d, there is still a vision for the future.

Cover art by Rabbi David Bichman, may he live and be well.

With this book, with G-d’s help, we will go to receive the face of our righteous Mashiach!

It is a mitzvah to copy, publish, and spread it and thereby merit many people.

If you find a copy of the book without the owner’s name (for example in a synagogue, etc.), you may take it free of charge in order to learn from it every day, and when possible — and especially on Shabbat.

Author’s address (for donations and more):

Moshe Shimon Olchov

Jerusalem

052-8174294

mosheol888@gmail.com

Published, with G-d’s help, by “Yesh Ma La’asot.”

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Part Two

In the Name of Heaven (B”S”D)

Essay A

Yearning for every state and situation — a new day, strengthening, renewal, and acquiring it in the completeness of will and soul until the revelation of the innermost part—to live with the soul.

Yearning is something that obligates and draws one close before the Holy One, Blessed Be He; the Shekhinah is opposite it — one’s will is developed and honored before the Place, Blessed Be He. It is an obligation to yearn and to seek G-d. When one yearns, then one draws close; rather, the place of the will — the point — develops and expands with aspiration and continuation.

Many desires depend on how many vessels a person prepares for the place, for the sake of the special gift that gives strength and mind for separation, liberty, might, victory and salvation, encompassing further work. The person exerts by his power even though he does not have much strength, and the forces of the soul are mighty — he encourages himself toward the gift and requests the light of the gift, utilizes it, and strives to acquire it — to arouse his state (to implement) the special gift that the Holy One, Blessed Be He, gave in His world so as to draw close to Him. There is not much to say, but when one expands everything is written, all is miracles, clear and scripted and experienced in completeness as much as can be.

It is forbidden for us to be narrow-minded, not to ask, not to desire G-d. There is great concealment, great confusion, distraction of attention and the weakening of the generations. One must not despair that I do not ask of G-d; rather, to see G-d in every situation that I can, to be accustomed to doing for Him great pleasure in every state.

Meaning: what passed has passed; it is not erased entirely. I am not a finished young man; not by coercion but with calmness, serenity, joy and faith, so as not to chase after the situation and not remain with that one thing, but to seize and seek another thing and another thing, to strengthen and to contemplate and to work it in order to come close to G-d truly. In every state it is possible to serve the Creator and strengthen anew in full renewal and joy. It is forbidden to despair and be broken. What a pity if this passes over me and I am broken and weakened — I must not despair and be broken and forget that I am a Jew and remember as much as possible that I can and am able to succeed and to draw close properly and to strengthen and to yearn for G-d truly.

The meaning is that I serve G-d in every state and every day anew, in complete renewal and with greater might. And I aspire and prepare vessels for receiving, illuminating, and the influence of the Divine abundance, and I want more and more — there is no end to wanting and requesting G-d. Each one according to his essence and his acquisition and his connection and his form before G-d.

To yearn means that I cling to G-d: I have nothing, I am crushed and broken without vessels, without G-d; and the Holy One, Blessed Be He, gave me a gift to draw near to Him — how did I not draw near and yearn and desire Him in truth and with the pinnacle of strength and vigor that was planted in my portion? It is forbidden to forget — what a pity to break — and of course even if I do not break, but I will not continue to request and to yearn for Him in every state and every situation that passes over him — and not to be swept away — to sanctify and purify and to yearn for Him is an obligation.

To yearn means that I internalize the will and connect and bring it close to the inner part of my soul, also a thought first about nullification and humility before G-d and to request Him in the heart and internalize it in the heart and in the soul until self-sacrifice and constant yearning.

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For every state and situation, and the connection before G-d and to request Him in every state — meaning even when it is hard, I want it despite the difficulty and suffering and the harassment — it is forbidden to hurry or be rash, but to request and to desire and to yearn — not to lose but all of it is spirit and spiritual providence that we should merit to purify and to request and to desire G-d in every situation every day anew with strengthening and with genuine high spiritual renewal. With joy and closeness to G-d truly, with a whole heart if there is will and decisiveness and the establishment of contemplation to purify the desires and to seek the truth until yearning for every state and every day anew. This is the glory of the power of renewal and strengthening — this time is the sacred, purified gift that purifies the soul, the power and renewal and strengthening to draw near to G-d. The majority of the strength of renewal is in purity of heart and internality — the limbs (248 organs) and the 365 sinews which are a helping power in the body to feel good and be happy in my good part in every state.

To be happy and joyful and give thanks to G-d because the part of newness and renewal and strengthening every day anew — that this time is so good, it is all good — everything that one can seize and apply — this is a gift and joy and connection to G-d Blessed Be He — because everything that one can sanctify in it comes from a good source, from a sublime and exalted spiritual source. The path is immense and lofty and seen and high to try and exert to renew despite the falls and the descents always — to think better with a quiet head — a thought that is hard that gives a source of light and joy and Judaism and attachment to G-d Blessed Be He. Every Jew who is in proximity to the place can seek a way to exert, to invest and to serve G-d with greater intensity and strength and might — a victorious spiritual war that always remains forever. Nothing is ever worked in vain; everything that I place internally on my heart stirs to strengthen in it and to yearn for Him — to connect to G-d, to draw near to G-d, to become enslaved to G-d and to force our inclination — to be enslaved to anything that sanctifies and purifies the soul of man. For man contains an animal form and an animal soul, and through yearning and spiritual light, the Infinite One, the Holy One, Blessed Be He, influences him and helps and assists him to draw near to Him truthfully and with integrity and in the highest spiritual pleasure — endless, innumerable, dependent on yearning — and it is such a great and eternal and exalted gift. The way to crave it and try to acquire it according to the measure of the traits and powers that are planted in me in my soul is an obligation — to strive and to yearn and to arouse the inner part where surely dwells peace and unity in G-d Blessed Be He.

In every trial that approaches and passes over a person, if he confronts it he acquires value — that is the way to insist and to serve G-d in yearning and in will (from the word mirutzon — satisfied) — we will desire before G-d; to serve G-d with joy in an inner revelation that is in me is the way to instill peace and calm and brotherhood and tranquility and serenity in the soul. Tranquility in the soul is achievable — meaning rest, inherent calm — always satisfied and cheerful towards past and future — rejoice in his eternal and exalted good portion.

One can always discover what G-d wants from me now — what is the path, what is the correction, and what is the main root to invest and to exert oneself on now; it does not matter if it is hard or easy — when is the way to establish the important matter that it is always possible to draw near to G-d, to yearn, to desire more joy and faith in G-d, to more strengthening and encouragement and prayer and thanksgiving to the Holy One, Blessed Be He.

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He always helps, only sometimes when it does not go as one wants then one falls and stops aspiring to yearn and to long for G-d. The great gift that exists in every situation to seek the light, the shining good point — from the term zohar — that lights and is always lit that is in me and is planted in me and with it to flow and to discover more effort and strengthening and encouragement and closeness to G-d. One must invest in order to succeed and not to forget — rather to remember even when one forgets and remember that the Holy One, Blessed Be He, helps and desires to do good and to help the person who always seeks the Name in every point — whether difficult or easy, before sin or after sin — remember and trouble himself to enjoy the value of virtues: if Torah and prayer and faith in G-d are in the heart — everything and faith must always be rooted anew every day and every time that we wander or forget from knowing G-d in the heart — and thereby to yearn every day renewed in strength and in might and in gratitude and closeness to G-d always. It is forbidden to despair — that we have not merited even once — it is never too late; always possible to begin again in retreat and in complete and exalted renewal every day anew in renewal and in victory and closeness to G-d. Always only to acquire to aspire to know that this and that are fitting for every Jew in his good part — to gather and to connect mighty efforts before G-d always.

Strengthening and renewal — meaning to acquire value for life that is also worthwhile when one looks properly and with a correct and true outlook in every state there is difficulty — it is always possible to increase and to strengthen. Great strengthening means not to be surprised at my values and to live in renewal and in strengthening over the evil power and the deceiver who confuses me and diminishes my value. What will every Jew be able to do and succeed in rising and strengthening and not fail or fall into nullity and sin, God forbid? In his hand is always to rectify and to live with account of deeds and self-scrutiny and even to fix them and to strengthen them or to arouse himself to the good and to be good and wonderful and happy in his life with perfect faith.

In every situation that passes or rolls upon us one can always acquire value, sanctity, and wonder — the deeds that I am amazed at from my good deeds and live them and identify with them and live always in account — both easy and hard, whether it is going as usual or with difficulty — and thus that a person in difficulty is a sign that he is in ascent. And so for every Jew in his good portion there is a measure of what he will manage to succeed in and where he will not stand and succeed — and one stands in trial in this state — to pray that the difficulty pass or that there should be power and mind and inner feeling to overcome and to strive and to succeed, to stand easily and pass the continual war. With heavenly assistance one can immediately succeed and to strengthen and renew in total renewal — meaning always and specially for me in every state it will pass and he shall acquire wisdom and experience for the future.

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Always strive more and more, to exert and to acquire value and sanctity and strengthening and renewal — for the time depends on the gift of strength and measure and value to yearn and to confront (from the word hamlacha? — measure) — always possible to succeed and to rise and receive a fatherly strength to absorb that it should be clear in the mind, in thought and especially in the intellect that I must acquire the value of yearning, otherwise I will never change and will not receive strength and awakening and enthusiasm and fervor and constant holiness. It is always possible to awaken and to strengthen in this and especially in this gift — one can persist to fill the inner light that exists and when there is none to turn to arouse and try to feel in the heart that I can and am able to succeed and always can boast and exalt and praise the Holy One, Blessed Be He, and rejoice Him in delight only through the yearning that I aspire and that it should always be. And always there will be a kisaron (talent) — from the word koach (strength) — present in the body and dwelling in the soul in my inner part in the great value that I can separate, spread, and purify in the sanctity of the mitzvot — regarding the value of constant yearning it is always possible to fill light and there is much light and joy if the vessels are filled with Torah and mitzvot and much yearning always — possible to act in this much more even when there are no vessels and there are no minds and certainly no inner feeling in the heart and in the soul together with revelation and unity of the good and the soul until rest and evident tranquility because when one wants there is delight and pleasure — but when there is rest and the feeling of the heart and soul united, that there is unity — meaning one equals arba? — this also reveals in the inner level of the soul — this is the revelation of the soul that feels every suitable thing and spiritual pleasure up to spiritual light satisfaction and high spiritual inspiration from the sense of dwelling and existence — always by hira — from the root that strengthens and nurtures and feels the illumination until the revealing of the soul and the unity of the soul that is united by the power of the heart and the soul.

Always important to yearn; it gives strength and freedom and the feeling of a free person, a son of ascent who requests G-d always. It is good to climb a little and to increase supplications, in prayers and requests, and it is desirable to have strength for revelation and yearning until prayer from the depths of the heart and constant soul-account. Requests and prayers and supplications should be in the capacity of speech and tongue and yearning to it and strengthening and renewal to it always in every state and in every test to pass — to succeed to discover and to know what G-d’s will is to do and to act and to make peace among the forces and the wants that reside in the heart and are found in the powers of the soul in expression and in the sensation of vitality in the heart and in the soul and in the blood, from the word levi (my heart) — in my innards there is vitality and aspiration for progress.

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Always in every trial and advancement in life it is possible to aspire that this is the beginning of desire, and that is also the general name for all success, both spiritual and material. But the expression of desire — meaning the main column — always renews, awakens, strengthens, draws the forces near and encourages both the manifestation of spirituality and that of one who walks in small steps and in darkness. It is always possible to invest to seek light and strength to draw near to G-d and to clarify and to bring out the actions of thought, speech and idea and in the reflection of the heart and in the feeling of renewal and victorious exalted strengthening — always possible to seek light and a source of abundance and spiritual holiness — everything depends on yearning, which is strength and gift to come close and to be enslaved to the Holy One, Blessed Be He, at the height of strength with the sanctity of thought, mind and heart and the 248 limbs and 365 sinews. Always possible to yearn — this comes with the greatest joy if the desire is for the sake of G-d, for His name, for the sake of the Holy One, Blessed Be He, in diligence and faithfulness and responsibility for the role of the people of Israel — Yehudi from the word Yehudah — Jewishness and closeness to G-d always. To conclude this essay: the acquisition in completeness of will and soul until the revealing of the innermost part to live with the soul, with an inner feeling — it is always possible to live in it, but tools are needed from the word mekabel and to want to draw near to G-d, to receive abundant spiritual light and blessing — filled with love for HaShem and yearning that comes from an inner, united source with the inspiration.

The love of G-d has many levels and tests, both in every trial and strengthening and in the sanctity of Torah and preparation for it through teshuvah me’ahava — repentance from love — that I love the Name who gives and vivifies and draws me near to Him at every time there is light. I feel the spark of the Holy One, Blessed Be He, that illuminates in the soul; from there come the forces to help for awakening and closeness to G-d in every state it is possible to feel the love. But it comes if there is unity and a bit of yearning and development of the will by mere words and also words of love to G-d: “You created us, You formed me, You acted for me and ? and created and breathed into me a pure soul that is a part of G-d from above; it is pure from a pure source eternally established under the throne of glory to glorify You. I must and am obliged for You, to sanctify and to purify the soul — it is destined to give account and not to forget You at all, both in the good state and in the less good state.”

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In the inner part, all is good — everything is for the good so that in the future we will see only light and refinement for the soul. Purity is always good to strengthen because it strengthens further, and the children of Israel are one for the other; this gives strength and spiritual illumination beyond measure and limit. It is always good to arouse myself before G-d both in prayer and in speech, strengthening until I come to nullification for the sake of the Infinite Light which is G-d who is found everywhere, there is no free place from Him — always to yearn and to want and to long for G-d. This is a subject in itself — always possible to sanctify the inner person that must be burning for the Name and asking more and more abundance from the Holy One, Blessed Be He, from the word nichsefa and “my soul longs” to the courtyards of G-d, my heart and flesh shall rejoice to the Living King. One must always yearn so that the perfection of the will will be united in the soul — from the word achdut (unity) — one, the only one created for me, the world that one = arbah (?), to love that he should yearn inside, not empty but full and abundant before G-d. To purify the mind — wisdom, understanding and knowledge — they are the tools to help the person’s service and the service of the Name depends on them, and the depth of interpretations in the handed-down books such as Igeret Me’elyahu, Siftei Chaim, Alei Shur, B’libbi Mishkan Evneh — the depth of the soul must be one with the will to remove the hindrances and the confusions to know that there is (G-d) and not to forget and to pray after the falls and descents but to remember always the Name that helps. And the person who was created in the image of G-d can always help in every difficulty and trial. One must always remember that the Name is found everywhere — there is no place free of Him and no thought or perception in Him at all — and it is always possible to establish peace, from the word achdut (unity). It is good for me to be a Jew and to give pleasure to our Father in Heaven, and to reveal the will and its perfection in the soul — that there be wholeness in the soul for the revelation of love. And always strengthening to draw near to G-d and to fear Him in every state — in difficulty, in ascent and in descent, in smallness and in greatness — until expansion of the vessels in will and aspirations and perpetual battles that we do not know and do know what each thing does and effects in holiness before sin and after sin — always possible to cry out to G-d to request in humility and awe and fear without shame and rage but in sanctity and royalty with glory and thanksgiving, in yearning for truth, for the judgment of truth in its truth. Always possible to draw near to G-d; the way is moderate and long for all life day by day, work by work, measure by measure — may blessing and salvation be near to come.

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Always possible to insist, and until one sees and reveals fruits — it is an obligation to strive to draw near to G-d and to yearn in every trial and complete renewal. No matter which path you passed, what you forgot, and what you did, it is always possible to acquire value and sanctity for the special gift because when one yearns one reveals the good will to reveal the inner part of the soul or in its beginning in the heart — if a little feeling and prayer in simplicity and innocence, little by little light opens and closeness to G-d; and even years — it depends on the merit of the person according to the level of his soul and the root of his soul — the way to establish little by little until one draws close to G-d and reveals light and faith and renewal and closeness to G-d. Proximity to G-d is good for me; always possible to eternalize, from the word netzach nitzchim, and it will not be forgotten forever. Always possible to recall the good pleasantly in the unity of the soul which is all love for G-d — always possible to draw near to G-d in whatever state that happens to a person and passes in his spirit in his spiritual state — to arouse to draw near to the Name — that the great gift of yearning is expressed in the nullification of the ego “I” and myself — this is not the self — the body functions: limbs operate, arteries work and act properly and the other muscles and tendons — but my interior is not “I” and united inside there is a separation of the heart and mind where knowledge is not settled and does not know G-d in the heart.

The way to root in the heart in renewal and in gathering the limbs so that everything functions but the soul still does not delight in G-d truly as it could be — so how do we acquire this? By contemplation and yearning first for every state and effort to purchase value and sanctity in it — this which raises a person and depends how much the person loves G-d to the point of complete nullification without distractions — this is a more practical internal fact and always and daily to remember G-d and to serve Him with a whole heart, heart and soul — and that we merit to arouse and to request G-d from the depths of the heart and soul until the revelation of the inner will that will be strong and firm, sturdy holiness, and stubbornness in sanctity until the nullification and elevation of the soul and revealing the constant will and stubbornness and doing deeds with will and yearning until the revelation of the inner layer of the soul — but in general aspirations and in constant spiritual strengthening until inspiration and unity in the soul and the revelation of love of G-d constantly in the soul that is pure, a part of G-d from above.

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Essay B

The spreading of materiality — what its light is and what its clinging is and what its interior is.

The light of the innerness is this matter, but very deep — to the feelings of the soul; it seeps in slowly at the moment that a person is ready to sanctify and purify and to serve the Name with joy and feeling of love — then a feeling of love and the joy of the love for HaShem, Blessed Be He, enters into him. From this the soul is affected by light of love and closeness to the Name — the light of the Holy One, Blessed Be He — it is great light that the Holy One illuminates to the soul. There is not always the feeling of love for the Name or that one is influenced by the illumination in the heart — this is a great thing to feel the light and only a few know of it and live from it in every state if there is connection, vitality and closeness to the Name, Blessed Be He. The light enters the heart and is felt once in the heart and sometimes in the mind — but to be in this or that with determination and with the feeling of clinging always, in every state — this is meant for the chosen ones of virtue. But the deep force that a Jew needs is to feel a delicate feeling — from the word dabar — a subtle thing, only for the soul, not deep and hard but gradually for those who work it and slowly receive from it by degrees and with peace of soul — a moment that the soul feels or is influenced by the heart and the forces are calm; peace is noticeable in the soul by nullification — both are nullified to desires or to actions — one rests a moment and feels light suddenly in the heart by sharpness and by faith we merit that there is faith in the heart. Sometimes one feels the feeling of love — not every person can truly feel and servants of G-d truly feel this always and it depends also on their level, because every moment comes light and there is light — there are lights that a person will not feel but to live with them and to bring them out into the power to act only by the fact of the action in him — and mainly to know that there are lights but they are tremendous and great. And what a person feels here is really almost not perceived and inward for everyone — it depends how much the person awakens and is stirred to G-d that there is a great light — in prayer surely they will feel the Name in their heart — but the essence of the lights is to know that there is the Name and that He acts and activates and tests kidneys and the heart; the very feeling of clinging and the spreading of materiality depends on the time-value of the person that must have a strong and powerful innerness to feel all the light and light and to know his state and especially the moving movement that acts and not to fight uselessly because there is light that is not felt so much then we do not fight with it — and the light comes from nullification in fact from constant service of the Name — to ask G-d that He bring and we will feel the light and know G-d in every time and hour and in every moment what G-d’s desire is to do now and to truly succeed. The light exists and shines always; only the person is not affected by it or does not feel it constantly — this is an inner depth that must be … and a closeness to grandeur constantly — this is the aspiration to it because sometimes lights come that one must be ready for them — that is to be in a state of illumination, lights shine the soul and spur the forces in feeling that is immersed in Torah and the sanctity of Torah and the mitzvot raise the person to the wonderful light that the Holy One, Blessed Be He, illuminates to the soul until the feeling of innerness and the spreading of materiality, that the material part is truly clinging to the soul that feels the soul and the body’s materiality fades away and what is its light — the light of lights is high above high and a person can feel in it clinging in prayer and Torah study and it depends on preparation and depends on enlightenment with the uplifting of the soul and the joy of the heart in inwardness — the light is for the strengthening of inner work, of implementation and feeling of the heart and to live with the soul not alone only if the feelings also move the soul the strengthening to internalize and to identify it, from the word zeh identical and familiar to every matter — in the innerness this needs desire and inner will to receive a bit of innerness and desire and a push for spiritual success when there is spirituality, and they hear that there are lights to know and understand what it is and how every Jew can attain it — it requires calm and tranquility and that there is a great light for the soul and there are no vessels then it is only if a momentary joy but the main joy must come with abundance of words of prayer — then merit the spreading of materiality that the material part (will flee) vanish or move away or pass and we will not feel it truly or it will leave during prayer, study or if there is vitality and the feeling of the heart so the heart will truly feel and live — if there is strength it will disappear or awaken or be roused — in the awakening there is influence of abundance and then from what? tools for the influence of the abundance and the illumination of the great light from the Holy One, Blessed Be He, which vivifies the soul — and the more the person is with his innerness he learns Torah with self-sacrifice according to the measure of his level and so he merits more illumination and sometimes the gift from G-d because this is G-d’s way always to do good and help those who seek Him and desire Him truly — and even those who have not yet merited to draw very near but their soul desires and the matter makes a great impression in the supernal realms and what is in the body part of the person — parts of his soul imprint and it is decreed how the person will live in what feeling and where he will pass and succeed — woe if he falls and fails then the person can change his nature by strengthening or by strengthening in faith — there is power from the holy forefathers who justify and great ones who will inherit an inheritance of fathers for coming generations — the impression, the power of each tzaddik and in his prayer and strengthening and Torah and his eternal perspective and connection.

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What is its clinging (devekut)?

Its clinging is to feel somewhat with innerness a clinging feeling that must come with the feeling of the heart with vitality — from the word chai — burning to the Holy One, seeking to draw near to the Holy One by living with the Holy One — and not faith alone, so he adds the feeling of living and closeness to G-d, Blessed Be He. Devekut is the matter that I cling to the Holy One all the time and try to work on this to acquire it — to purchase that is the thing that benefits to want to serve G-d with more strength and the return of the mind. To acquire value for devekut: A. Strength of clinging. B. Strength of clinging (repeated?). C. Interiority of clinging. A. To acquire value for clinging — this gift which should be full, abundant with light and inner joy and inner happiness and spiritual awakening to G-d — the full power — this gift should convince a person that it is worthwhile to be glued to G-d. But how to work? We will try to define that a person can for example walk, do — to think how many days he stands before the Holy One and the Holy One watches him and supervises him, and so on, to continue to add that the Holy One helps and assists to succeed to rise from the bed, to get up and go and to turn here and there and there is no person who lifts a finger from below until they declare…