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Faith above reason allows one to see reality as the Creator sees it.
Ordinarily, we perceive the world through our egoistic knowledge, through the lens of self-interest. The Creator deliberately created us within egoism in which we feel ourselves and the world as separate and limited.
But through faith above reason, we elevate ourselves to the degree of bestowal, to the level of Bina, and enter into the Creator’s vision, into His world, into His perception of reality.
Therefore, faith above reason is not self-deception or imagination. On the contrary, it transfers us into the true world, the world of truth. Then we see ourselves within the reality of the Creator and behold all things through His eyes.
Faith above reason is the highest degree—the attribute of Bina, of bestowal, the quality of the Creator Himself. When we enter this quality, relative to us it is called faith above reason, for reason represents the view of our egoism, while faith represents the degree of Bina, bestowal, the level of the Creator.
Thus, when we strive for faith, we do not become dreamers or idealists. On the contrary, by doing so, we attain the world of truth, a reality untainted by our egoism.
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From the Preparation for the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/23/20
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One who wishes to work for the Creator must include himself in all creations, that is, feel their desires, join with all souls, and include himself in them and them in himself.
He leaves for himself only what is necessary for connection with the Creator, and all the rest of his desire becomes included in the general creation. Desire is given to us only for this purpose, to connect with everyone.
And for this, it is necessary to connect oneself with all creations and raise them to their root. It turns out that only a point in the heart remains in each of us, and all the other qualities, desires, and intentions are needed only in order to connect with everyone, to connect everyone with the Creator through this point in the heart, and through this point in the heart to transmit the response from the Creator back to everyone else.
A person who works in this way is called “Adam” and is the receptacle of the entire huge vessel of one soul. Each of us can become such a person because everyone has their own point in the heart through which they connect to the Creator and transmit a unique message from everyone to the Creator and from the Creator to everyone.
It turns out that each person is a complete Adam, and the entire structure that is created by the Creator, by the soul, belongs to everyone. But each person has their own specific one, and is connected through their point in the heart.
By giving each of us a point in the heart, the Creator allowed everything else to be connected to it, and made it a specific, individual, personal soul of each one. And then all the points in the heart are joined together into one common Kli: Adam.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/8/18, Preparation for the Congress
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Faith above reason is the entry into the spiritual world because it is precisely what determines our place. It is like an identity card that testifies to who a person is, where he stands in relation to humanity, to his egoism, to the Creator, and to all of reality. This single parameter—faith above reason—defines the entire person.
Day by day, we work again and again on faith above reason until we gradually enter it. This may take a long time, but each time we take another step forward.
And we must also believe with faith above reason that every day we advance toward this concept until it becomes a part of a person, determining one’s spiritual degree: a person already in the world of truth, that is, the spiritual world, in adhesion with the friends and with the Creator and ascending the spiritual ladder.
It is said that our task is to make efforts, and the salvation of the Creator comes in the blink of an eye. This means that we begin to feel a yearning to love all the friends. All these different faces on the screen awaken love in me because they are the closest people to me, closer even than my own family, because we are the closest to one another within the system of the common soul, Adam HaRishon.
And it does not matter that one is from Africa, another from Italy, and a third from the Far East; this has no significance whatsoever because we judge not by the material qualities of this world, but according to spiritual ones. In this sense, we are the closest people to each other, neighboring parts of one soul.
Connection between us is possible only through the feeling of love when each one wants to cling to the other, to help them. Love covers all transgressions, and despite all difficulties, I desire to unite with my friends.
Therefore, the yearning for correction is a yearning for love. The wisdom of Kabbalah speaks only about sensations, because the Creator created the desire to enjoy, the desire to feel fulfillment. Hence, we must clarify what we want to feel and in which organs of perception.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/7/20, “Work with Faith Above Reason”
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If I do not yet understand what faith above reason is or how to attain it, it is not my fault; this stems from the very nature of creation. There is egoism in each of us that, does not allow one to rise above oneself and comprehend how it is possible to exist above the desire to receive pleasure and to turn outward, beyond the ego. That very state is called faith above reason.
I must make a restriction (Tzimtzum) on my desire to receive and rise above it toward bestowal.
To act for the sake of bestowal means:
This means I have faith above reason, the power of bestowal I tap into and by which I begin gradually and repeatedly to build myself.
Ultimately, every person must perform this inner work because this is what spirituality means: the degree of Bina is higher than Malchut when we strive to think, feel, understand, and perceive according to the higher degree, above ourselves.
I do not ascend by abandoning my place but by building an additional level of perception upon it. It is not about becoming more intelligent or more sensitive; that would only be an inner, egoistic development.
Spiritual development means that I rise above my natural perception and wish to perceive everything through the importance of the friends.
We must remember that all the degrees and all the states already exist in reality; we need only make the effort to enter them.
I bring myself to the degree of faith, the degree of Bina, meaning that those who are outside of me, the group and the Creator, become more important than myself. In this form, I begin to see, feel, and hear what occurs within the friends and not within me. And this relation, this orientation toward what happens in others and not in myself grants me a spiritual sensation.
If I were to feel only what occurs in the friends, I would be an angel.
But if I feel myself and am also within the friends and within the Creator, perceiving and understanding what transpires with them, then I am called a Kabbalist, which is a far higher degree than that of an angel.
Here, one begins to touch the true spiritual qualities.
Above reason means to act according to the desire to bestow, for the sake of connection, according to spiritual definitions—not corporeal ones. In the material world, everyone exists separately; there is no connection. Each one acts for oneself and not for bestowal.
But I strive to establish the state of unity and mutual bestowal, to begin to sense such a reality and to view the entire world through it.
I want to see everyone through different eyes, not my own, but through the eyes of the ten.
And the same applies to my sensations, my heart, my mind; in everything I strive to attain collective perception, to see the world not as a single person, but as a ten.
Because the ten is a spiritual structure, a Partzuf, and whatever is revealed within it is a spiritual state.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/8/20, “Work with Faith Above Reason”
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A person must understand that they live in a world in which they have no right to anything at all. And if they take something, consume it for themselves for their own sake, then they must pay for it, give it back, repay it, and so on.
Question: And the fact that we break everything, kill, does all that come back to a person like a boomerang? What do you think?
Answer: We will have to pay for all of that on a global scale.
Comment: Remember, Rabbi Akiva said that “the book is open, the hand writes,” and you borrow, as it were, and later you must repay all of it.
My Response: You will have to.
Question: Is that what this is about?
Answer: Yes.
Question: And is it normal to take only what is necessary for survival?
Answer: Only for survival, and if you take only for survival, then you will be able to give it back.
Comment: And it is so, blessed be it.
My Response: Relatively. It is a very complicated matter. After all, nature is closed, integral, perfect. And therefore, our existence within it, in nature, requires that we be really careful and completely dedicated.
Question: How, then, can we achieve harmony with nature?
Answer: Only if we manage to unite with nature and achieve the ability to give in the same measure that we take. Then we will regulate how much to take and how much to give.
Question: But aren’t we, in principle, constantly moving toward that in one way or another?
Answer: I hope that someday we will.
Question: Why haven’t we been given the ability to understand and feel all this? We just take things from nature without concern.
Answer: But we are moving toward it. It is a development, the gradual development of nature from the inanimate onward.
Question: So we must come to the point that I cannot just take everything as I want. And certainly not kill, steal, and so on?
Answer: Of course.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 11/3/25
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