Question: What is faith?

Answer: Faith is bestowal, the ability to give despite the desire to receive (faith above reason). Since we are the desire to receive, faith, which is the quality of bestowal, is always against my nature.

One can acquire it only with the help of the upper light that gives us the ability to rise above ourselves, to act not in our own desire, but in the desire of another, of the Creator (for the sake of another, the Creator). To this extent I become dependent on the upper one (a servant of the Creator) and not on myself (a servant of myself). If you believe me, it means that you act with your abilities for my sake. You become similar to me. Usually, every person is opposite to another. But if I say that someone believes me, say by 50%, this means that he has neutralized his desires by 50% and in that measure can be merged with me.

There is only knowledge, actions for the sake of one’s own desires, in which we know what we want. And there is faith, action in filling another’s desires. To the extent of this quality, a person senses outside himself, in other desires. What is sensed in them is called the higher, spiritual world. Therefore, faith is connected with love, love for the other. Love is the ability to replace one’s own desire with other’s desire and to fill it.

As we see, faith in Kabbalah is the mastery of the higher quality of bestowal. And it has nothing in common with the definition of faith accepted in our world as believing in the knowledge of someone else and accepting it as a fact. It turns out that even what may be someone else’s invention becomes a fact, a given, for me upon which I build my further actions, my life.
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