One who advances by faith, by rising above reason, attains a higher reason.

In truth, a person is unable to go above reason. How can he part with his reason? For him, it is like separating the head from the body.

What does above reason mean? Reason is the self. This is the name for all the information about what I must do with my will to receive—the entire program of how I must fill it, what to do with it, and how to relate to it.

If I were to cast aside all the knowledge I have accumulated over the years within me, and retain only the most primitive instincts that even a small child has, could I possibly exist in such a case? Thus a person is not capable of wanting to free himself from his knowledge because it constitutes their very nature.

What we eventually arrive at is the recognition of evil. When I understand that everything within me—my insights, experience, understanding of how to act in different situations, what to do and how to behave, and everything that constitutes the inner me—is incorrect and flawed, then I renounce my knowledge, reason, and experience, and separate myself from them completely. I understand that all of this is evil because I realize that it cannot help me reach what I want.

What can help me pass into another state, the state in which I would like to be? I need to receive the reason from that state into which I want to enter, its knowledge. From here despair comes to me, and within me grows a demand, a prayer.
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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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