What is faith above reason? Within reason means according to our understanding, according to the mind of a person in this world that is based on egoism.

Accordingly, a person perceives, feels, makes decisions, and acts. That is called “according to my opinion.” But above my opinion is the opinion of the upper one, and therefore I must replace my opinion with His, with the opinion of the Creator.

But I do not know the Creator’s opinion; it reaches me through my ten. If I connect with them, then by gradually annulling myself and merging with my friends, I replace my opinion with theirs.

This is not a simple substitution of one for another, otherwise I would become an angel, a kind of spiritual animal. Rather, I perform this act above my reason; I retain my own opinion, and rise above it. Thus, I occupy two levels, and in the difference between them I discover the perception of a spiritual human being.

Nothing in a person’s sensation is destroyed or erased. In fact, one acquires an additional nature, the Creator’s nature, and thus attains “faith above reason.” He has his own knowledge, and above it, faith; and he exists between the two.

The Creator did not create our desire to enjoy in vain. It is the foundation that constantly accompanies us so that “darkness will shine as light.” The darkness of my egoism, my opinion, supports the higher opinion that stands above it. Precisely from the contradiction between them, I attain the greatness of the Creator against the insignificance of the creature.

We do not annul ourselves or lose anything within us. While standing firmly on both feet, we build the middle line, and only in this way do we establish ourselves as a human being, Adam, “similar to the Creator.” Everything that exists in this creation is received from the Creator, but by the person’s own decision.

The Creator gives me an adapter that connects me to Him: this is the ten. This adapter is very complex, but there is no choice. I must connect it and use it, however many years it takes. I must annul myself, otherwise I will not connect to the group, because my plug does not fit its socket.

Within my friends dwells the Creator, who helps me unite with them more and more until I begin to reveal Him within them. I begin to work with the Creator through my friends, for they are my soul, and the Creator is the light that fills that soul.

The main thing is to integrate into the environment, and then I begin to receive opinions, desires, and thoughts, not just from a higher degree, but of an entirely new quality. For within the group exists “faith above reason,” a new perception not inherent to a person of this world.

Therefore there is no other way. One must annul oneself, enter the group, and leave one’s prior experience behind for now. We are speaking of an adult person with much life experience and knowledge, yet relative to the group one makes oneself into an embryo, a zero. And when a person begins to receive knowledge from it and grow, one builds faith above reason on the basis of one’s former qualities, thoughts, desires, one’s previous “self.” One cannot exist without the other.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/23/19, Writings of Rabash “Concerning Above Reason”

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