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Time is comprised of day and night, and so is the life of man, with light and darkness, ups and downs, as it is known from the sayings of the Baal Shem in the verse "Seven times the righteous man falls and gets up." Because there are seven days in one week, and afterward, it returns to another seven-day cycle. Indeed, also in times of darkness, we need the light of the moon or the stars which are also light, as it is stated in the beginning of Pesachim, that it (night) is not complete darkness. And in your house, you need the light of a candle [it is Mitzvot. and the light is Torah, "For the LORD God is sun and shield"(Psalms 84:12) and that is Torah in the name of the heavens, and in the lucidity there is recognition of being in the name of Heavens. and this is "But may Your friends be as the sun rising" (Judges 5;31). "And those who lead the many to righteousness will be like the stars" (Daniel 12:3) that learning Torah will be revealed to the masses.] As it is explained, one's house, and in the chambers of one's heart, the light of the candle (Torah and Mitzvot) is good for searching for the leaven in the dough (one's characteristics, traits, and actions,) that is concealed in holes and cracks, this is much better done in the night, in the times of darkness, so the light of the candle will illuminate [which is not so during the day as the lamp will not illuminate anything in the daylight(Chullin 60b), that in (the beginning of Talmud Yerushalmi Pesachim) in the day even in a place of darkness, it won't illuminate as much. In times when Hashem is revealed to the entire face of the world, the little candle of Miztvot isn't important to everyone (doesn't shine as brightly.)] And with this, one is able to search for all the types of fermentations (Evil) in the cracks of his heart, until the place he is unable to reach, and what is left he must nullify in his heart. And here is the light of the sun that purifies the time of day and the completion of becoming pure comes with the setting of the sun as is stated in Brachot 2, and if purification has not yet been achieved, the sun will not set, as there is still time necessary to become pure, and on this the light of the sun is attempting to reach its purity.