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Posted on December 9th, 2025

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How Do I Reach Faith Above Reason?

Posted on December 9th, 2025

Question: Lately, I cannot understand what faith above reason is. Could you explain how one reaches this state, and what it actually is? As I understand, it is given by the Creator, and without this faith, one cannot move anywhere.

Answer: Faith above reason is that the intention to bestow and love are higher (in importance) than the intention for one’s own sake.

This happens under the influence of the surrounding light that descends during study, and while participating in the group, and dissemination. Until the light gives you this quality, you cannot understand it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/28/08

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Visiting a Sick Friend

Posted on December 9th, 2025

Question: Why is it easier to endure personal misfortunes when you have friends?

Answer: When I am connected with friends, my personal problem is shared among us. If there is truly a strong bond between us and they support me by sharing my sorrow, then it is distributed among all of us.

This is precisely the meaning of visiting the sick. We tend to think that people visit the sick just to check on them, to talk with them, to bring them apples and oranges, but there is a much deeper meaning. Such a visit can actually ease the illness because we share the suffering of the friend and give him our strength.

We are all connected in one system regardless of the fact that each of us exists in a separate body. If we are connected, then all our systems connect: intellectual, emotional, and many others that we do not yet know about.

As a result, we create a shared system of connections between people, and in truth it is much greater than we imagine. Illness is a kind of malfunction in my personal system that makes me feel ill. But when my friends who are connected with me come to visit with the intention of deepening the connection, they enter my damaged system and take part in it.

If two friends come to visit me, then my malfunction is divided among the three of us. It does not yet divide evenly, but it should if we are strongly, properly, and correctly connected. We will clearly feel how we take on the other’s pain, and give the sick person our own joy and happiness in return.

Question: So if someone tells me about their problem, does it make it easier?

Answer: If there is no connection between you, this has practically no effect. Yet we know that hearing good or bad news can influence a person strongly, either lift their mood or depress them.

But if this is my friend, then we are connected as if we exist within one body. Therefore when he comes to visit me during an illness, the defect in my system is transmitted to him, and it becomes easier for me.

It is precisely because we are separated by bodies, but able to connect on a sensory level, that a friend can help heal my illness, as if taking part of it into himself. He takes a portion of the imbalance from my system and equalizes it within his own.

He eases my suffering simply by performing a good and correct action, and takes this unbalanced part onto himself with love. And besides that, his healthy system can absorb this fragment of another’s illness precisely because it is not inherently his. He takes part of the illness, isolates it within himself, and heals it within his own subsystem.

Question: Does this happen unconsciously?

Answer: Usually it happens unconsciously, but there are people on a higher level who can see how it occurs.
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From KabTV’s “New Life 242 – Happiness And Social Ties,” 10/17/13

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How to Check Whether the Path Is Correct

Posted on December 9th, 2025

It is very easy to determine whether a path is spiritual: everything we agree with is not spiritual!

What does belong to it are precisely the opposite things, which are not accepted by our reason and feelings and are unwanted and hated. Those are exactly what we must work on.

If I do not feel any benefit from some state, neither emotionally nor mentally, then only by rising above that state can I begin to build the spiritual. After all, in such a case I am certainly not bribed or seeking personal gain, and in order to rise above it, I will need the help of the Creator.

So I constantly check myself: to what extent does my body resist my work? And this becomes a sign of correct advancement for me.

Then I need to look at why I am doing this. Maybe I want to rise above myself and pursue some personal goals.

Or maybe I want to find the love of the Creator, which is repugnant to our “body”—the egoistic mind and feeling. And I am looking for love that is entirely built on hatred of egoistic thoughts and desires about myself.

But often we do not try to rise above our body, but regret that we cannot work according to the mind and feelings contained within the body, rather than seeking the state that lies above reason and feeling, and desiring to be in it.

First of all, we must push the body down with all its feelings and reason, be above them, and not take them into account. That is, we take them into account only in order to rise above them. This is called faith above reason.

Instead we lament: why is everything not revealed to my mind so that I could act like a sensible person, and know that I possess intellect and my own strength for proper advancement?
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson, 8/30/10, Rabash, Article 35

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Desire is Primary, the Mind is Secondary

Posted on December 9th, 2025

Comment: Desire develops the mind. You say that it is not the intelligent one who learns, but still a person becomes smarter.

My Response: But this reason appears as a result of new feelings, sensations, and changes in one’s desires.
Comment: So a stronger desire emerges, and because of that the mind increases as a side effect.

My Response: No, it is not a side effect. It truly is auxiliary. It serves the increased, transformed desires.

But we always thought that desires were just some kind of passions, something else, and that the mind is something we can rely on. In reality, that is not how it is. You begin to see that everything is completely different, the world is arranged the opposite way, precisely because desire is the basis of matter.

That is, if you act only within our world, then knowledge is above desires. But if you desire to enter the upper world, you begin to understand that all your advancement depends on the change and correction of your desires. Therefore, they become the main thing for you to address. And knowledge and reason are adjacent, as something auxiliary.

Comment: I wouldn’t say that. After all, all your previous knowledge allowed you to express certain things.

My Response: But nothing more. Only in my profession as a teacher, but personally, I don’t need it.
Inner intelligence, that is, internal development does help, of course, but it depends on the type of soul.

I’m serious. I want people to understand that the level of earthly knowledge, whatever it may be— psychological or scientific—gives a person absolutely nothing for spiritual advancement. For explanations, for work, for something external perhaps it does. But not for the person himself.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. Reason and Feelings” 10/5/10

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