Laws of the Morning Blessings — Halacha 1

"Kad shama kol tarnegoala yevaraych: HaNoasain laSechvi veenah..." — When one hears the call of the rooster, he blesses: "He Who gives the rooster understanding..."

This is based on what the Rebbe wrote in the Torah "OoviYom HaBeekoorim" (LM I:56), which speaks of the revelation of the concealment. See there: the essential rectification of Malchus is through drawing into her areechoos yamim [length of days], which is the aspect of Da'as. Then one can reveal the concealment within the concealment (hahastara shebesoach hahastara), and the concealment itself is transformed into Da'as. Then: "Oraysa machrezes kamaihoo: Ad maseye peseye’im..." — the Torah cries out before them: "How long will you fools love foolishness?"

This is the aspect of the call of the rooster. At night, the concealment intensifies — for it is the aspect of dinim [strict judgments]. Therefore the Malchus is in exile at night, and sleep reigns — sleep being one-sixtieth of death, the opposite of life and arichus yamim (-length of days, which come through Da'as).

At midnight (Chatzos), the Da'as begins to illuminate within the Malchus, and the rectification of Malchus begins. Then the concealment — which is the aspect of dinim and gevuros — is itself transformed into Da'as. They cry out and proclaim: "Ad maseye peseye’im te'ehavu fesi!" — "How long will you fools love foolishness?!" This is the aspect of the Torah crying out.

This is the call of the rooster — which cries out and awakens the world to serve the Creator, as explained in the Zohar. It comes specifically from the chain of Gevuros — for the Gevuros, which are the concealments, are themselves transformed and become Da'as. They cry out and awaken: "How long will you fools...! Awaken, sleepers, from your slumber!"

Therefore we bless: "HaNoasain laSechvi veenah" — for through the illumination of Binah — the aspect of the Mochin — into the Gevuros, they are transformed and become Da'as. "Lihavchin bain yom oovain leyelah" — "to distinguish between day and night" — is the opposite of the concealments, which reverse light into darkness and darkness into light. Through the revelation of Da'as, one can distinguish between day and night, between darkness and light, and between evil and good.

"HaNoasain laSechvi veenah" — Binah specifically. For the essential sweetening of the Gevuros — that they are transformed into Da'as, the aspect of Chesed — is through Binah: "Meesham dinin mis'arin, vi'al yadah nimtakin" — from there, from Binah, the dinim awaken, and through her they are sweetened.

This is the aspect of: "Mee gevehr yichyeh..." (Tehillim 89:49). "Mee" is the aspect of Binah, as it is written: "Mee nasan laSechvi veenah" (Iyov 38:36), as the Zohar HaKadosh explains. "Kee Hashem Tzeva'oas ya'atz oomee yafair" — when one draws the illumination of Binah into the Gevuros, this is the aspect of life and arichoos yamim. And this is: "Mee gevehr yichyeh" — through this, "yemalait nafshoa miyad She'ol selah" — he rescues his soul from the hand of She'ol, forever. For through this, the concealment is transformed into Da'as, and the Torah cries out before them to return in teshuvah; and through this teshuvah, one rescues his soul from She'ol.