Question: What exactly is revealed to us above reason?

Answer: I do not know what will be revealed to me above reason. For now, I simply continue on the path.

I am told that after I become completely exhausted and despair of my own strength and after thinking, “If I am not for myself, who will be for me?”, then I will merit the right to turn to Him with a cry for help. I will have nothing else left to do.

The Creator no longer leaves me any hope that I can still try something on my own and thereby attain the desired goal. Only one thing remains in me: a great desire to attain it with absolutely no means to do so, and then I cry out.

I cry out because I see no possibility of moving forward. No opportunities are left to me; no chances are being given.

This is not an ordinary cry born of despair in life. In Kabbalistic terms, it is the moment when a person realizes that no effort within the egoistic will to receive can bring him to the goal. All personal calculations, strengths, knowledge, and strategies have been exhausted.

Only then can a genuine prayer emerge, not a request for fulfillment, but a request for help from a force that lies above one’s own nature.

The paradox is that this state is not considered a descent, but rather a preparation for ascent. As long as a person still believes that he can achieve spirituality through his own powers, he has not yet reached a true need for the Creator. When every other support falls away, the deficiency becomes complete, and from that complete deficiency the real cry is born.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/13/26, Rabash, “And the Lord Appeared to Him at the Oaks of Mamre”

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