Question: Can it be said that as we advance faith above reason becomes faith within reason?

Answer: Faith above reason never becomes faith within reason. We are speaking about a world that we do not feel. It seems to us that what takes place there can be described by concepts familiar to us. Faith above reason, the quality of bestowal, spiritual qualities, all of these have absolutely no connection to what exists within us now.

Faith above reason will never be felt within reason. This work of Bina and Malchut remains forever. Malchut can never change. The desire to receive remains exactly as it was created. It loves to enjoy receiving, and its fulfillment is the Creator, the light. One can change the form in which it is used, but not the desire itself.

Therefore it is forbidden to address the desire to receive, to suppress it, or to try to change it in any way. Do you want to use it differently? Fine. Give it a different direction; determine for what purpose it will be used. But the desire itself remains exactly as it was.

The point is that the difference between Klipa (impurity) and holiness is not in the actions themselves, but in the intention behind the actions. Rabash gives the following example. A person is cut with a knife. If it is for the person’s benefit, it is called an operation performed by a surgeon. But if it is for one’s own benefit, it is called murder. Yet the action itself remains exactly the same.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/10/26, Rabash, “What Is Above Reason in the Work?”

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