To Truth from Faith

252We should yearn to see a friend as the greatest of the generation in a real, tangible way, which is called “within reason,” as it really is, and not as it seems to our egoism. After all, egoism always wants to feel better and more comfortable, and therefore it instinctively belittles everyone around in order to be above them. The main thing for it is to rule.

Therefore, to accept the idea of the need to connect with friends as a means of reaching connection with the Creator is possible only by faith above reason since we certainly do not see each other in our true form. Only on the basis of this small external criterion, where we see that a person is aiming for the same goal and is willing to accept all the conditions necessary to advance toward it, do we begin to treat him as a friend, as a means to connect with the Creator.

Based on such external signs, we decide to start working on our attitude to this person. If he is ready to work together, then we annul all other claims that our ego usually makes and begin to come closer to the person to connect in order to tangibly reveal our connection, and not just by faith above reason.

As we reach a genuine, sensory connection, we are coming closer to building a spiritual vessel in which the Creator is revealed.

A connection can occur above reason, at a time when it does not seem to me that a friend is worth it, but I still connect with him. I use this as the means. We call this a period of preparation, when I value my friends not because I see them as great. According to my feelings, I am above them, but I go above my feelings, do not agree with them, and I imagine my friends as great.

In order to move from faith above reason to reason, that is, to truly appreciate my friends, I need to correct my perception. The correction is in the fact that we are starting to work on our connection despite the opposite opinion. We are building a society in which everyone gives others a sense of the greatness of the group and the goal.

Through working together, we attract the reforming light, and as a result, we move from faith above reason into reason, and so we rise higher and higher. Of course, each subsequent step is more difficult. At first, the friends seemed as not too bad to me: in some ways bad, in some ways good. When it was necessary to rise above reason, I could easily do it and accept them as equals, companions on the way, or even great people of the generation. Their goal and they themselves seemed important to me.

But then I received the burdening of the heart, and I found a lot of flaws in them. It becomes increasingly difficult for me to accept them as great and see the Creator behind them and to warm myself up so that I do not notice anyone except my friends so that friends become everything to me.

Each time it gets harder and harder until I nevertheless overcome these obstacles and fulfill the measure allocated for me. Then all my efforts to go above reason turn into reason, turn into the correct vessel, inside of which the first revelation of the true quality of bestowal takes place, that is, a person is filled with the feeling of the Creator.

Thus, the principle of faith above reason always operates between the degrees, when ascending from one to the other. But when we are building our vessel, we should try as much as possible to transfer it into the reason.
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From the 1st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/3/13, Writings of Rabash “Shlavei HaSulam,” “Concerning Above Reason”

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