Question: If I know that the Creator is good and does good, what does it mean to rise in faith above reason?

Answer: It means to believe that the Creator is good and does good in all life circumstances in everything that happens to you, even in the most terrifying states.

When you go through such states, you still believe that the Creator truly loves you and treats you with love, even though you may not feel it on your flesh.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/8/24, Writings of Rabash “Faith and Reason”

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Question: Within us lies tremendous spiritual force. How can we unlock this force in which creations are to unite with the Creator? Is it only through the screen?

Answer: Only through the Creator. The Creator will do everything necessary, both the screen and the connection.

Question: What should I internally ask the Creator for?

Answer: It is up to you what you ask for. It all depends on your relationship with Him, what desire the Creator evokes in you, and with what desire you approach Him. Ask to understand this desire and ask to fulfill it so that He can help you with this.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/9/24, Writings of Rabash “The Order of the Work”

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Question: When you focus on dissemination, how do you calculate which is better?

Answer: You just have to feel it; words can’t convey it to people anyway. When they start to feel it, then they will see. Just like every day we become more and more agile and adapt to new sensations and new opportunities.

If a man from the middle of nowhere hears us, he will say: “What’s the matter? I don’t understand.”

And if you tell an advanced person about this who understands, say, computers, he will say: “Yes, I saw something like that. You’re saying the same thing as there and there.”

Meaning, people will increasingly agree with you. Therefore, we need to advance humanity, and then it will understand us.

We shouldn’t dig into this, there is no special mystery here. In fact, this is the attainment of reality, which is part of my specialty, ontology. Anyone can go in and study it, take the “Introduction to The Book of Zohar” and read what Kabbalists write about it.

Comment: But this is a completely different perception of reality.

My Response: People started talking about it 5,000 years ago. But they were Kabbalists who began to discover a new reality.

Rambam writes that the world we feel is under the speed of light. How could he talk about the speed of light in the 12^th century? And he’s not the first. We see what Kabbalists wrote back in the days of Aristotle, Plato, and other philosophers.

Reaching the next degree does not depend on time. You can dress according to your time, use the tools, instruments, and everyday life appropriate for that time, and inside yourself, at the level of “Man,” be at the degree of the Creator and attain all actuality, all reality.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. How to Change the World for the Better?” 1/23/12

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Comment: When you explain something, everyone understands you in their own way. That is, everyone’s filter refracts your energy in its own way. It reaches a certain part of the layer of desires that stand behind every person, be it a musician, or an artist, or a machine operator.

My Response: Yes, each of them understands in the way that is best for him. People are still grouped according to some characteristics. They are all different, but in principle each of them is special.

If you treat them with increased sensitivity for research, you will see that none of them is like the others.

Not with anything! They have such a specific internal combinatorics between all desires, properties, thoughts, and initial data, especially after they developed in different societies under the influence of different environments, that it is simply incredible to compare them with each other.

Question: But with all our characteristics, even if we are close to each other, how can we overcome this threshold of differences?

Answer: Unite not by common properties, since they practically do not exist, but with a common goal and complement of each other’s properties. That is, it does not matter to me who you are. It is important to me that you and I have the same goal and the same path to it.

Question: It happens that people gather based on some common characteristics: some like this, others like that. But internally they are completely different. Is it good when people group according to similar inclinations?

Answer: It is not us who are grouping, but it is happening from above. The Creator, the upper force, groups us because in this way we can complement each other.
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From KabTV’s “I Got a Call. One Word – A Million Meanings” 1/8/12

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Question: It is written in the sources that one must believe above reason that the Creator wanted to do good to His creations. How does this differ from the common understanding that everything happens for the best, hope for the best and everything will be good?

Answer: It may seem very similar. But the point is that faith above reason obliges you to perceive everything happening in the world as an action of the Creator, which is always positive.

Question: Can it be said that part of humanity still lives by this principle?

Answer: Yes, but they accept it through reason, not through faith above reason. The difference is that you are connected to the Creator if you operate on faith above reason. But if it is through reason, it does not bind you to anything.

Question: What does it mean to adhere to the Creator in faith above reason?

Answer: It means to connect with Him and feel Him in all your desires and thoughts.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/9/24, Writings of Rabash “The Order of the Work”

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Question: You said we must perform actions to cling to the teacher. What other actions can we perform in the ten? We pray, attend lessons, and try to fulfill…

Answer: If you unite with each other and want to gain strength in the connection, with the help of which you can go against your decision, against your ideas, then you can already rise to the degree of faith above reason and thus move forward.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/8/24, Writings of Rabash “Faith and Reason”

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Question: How can we overcome the distance between the calculation of the mind that the Creator is kind and loving and our true feelings in the heart if they are different?

Answer: It will come to you. In the meantime, make calculations above the heart.

Question: Is faith a goal or a means?

Answer: Faith is a means of attainment, of feeling, the Creator.

Question: Not believing your feelings and your knowledge, but seeing and feeling everything through the perception of your friends is faith above reason. What happens to us if we succeed?

Answer: You will form a Kli with which you can ascend to the Creator.

Question: What does the force of faith depend on?

Answer: On your desire for unity in which you strive together toward the Creator.

Question: Who is the righteous of the generation, and how does he manage to receive knowledge directly from the light of Hochma?

Answer: A righteous person is one who reaches such a connection with the Creator when he receives light directly from the Creator, and we all connect to him together.

Question: How do you learn to turn off the first egoistic reaction of the heart?

Answer: Only by prayer. With any words, turn to the Creator to correct your heart.

Question: You often advise the whole ten, but we do not know how everyone heard you. Is the desired state of the ten when everyone has an opinion as we figure out how to implement Rav’s words?

Answer: It does not matter if the opinions are different or the same. The main thing is that you learn to work together.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/8/24, Writings of Rabash “Faith and Reason”

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Question: When we follow you, we periodically receive the light of knowledge. How can the ten achieve such a state without interruption? What do we have to do?

Answer: Friends in the ten must follow the teacher’s instructions as if they know, understand, and see that this is how we do everything.

Together they support each other and thus follow their leader. Then gradually they begin to understand what they are lacking and how to obtain knowledge within faith so that faith will bring them knowledge.

Question: What should I demand from myself?

Answer: You must demand only one thing from yourselves and the friends: that all of you connect with the group in the center of our circle. From the center of the circle, you would look at the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/8/24, Writings of Rabash “Faith and Reason”

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Question: If the Creator is good and does good, then does punishment exist at all in spirituality?

Answer: Of course everything exists in spirituality, both help and punishment. It may not exist in this world, but it definitely exists in the spiritual realm.

Punishment is intended to make us realize that we are obliged to fulfill spiritual conditions for our own good.

For example, if you now lack spiritual importance, then this is a punishment. You should not accept such a situation. If you do not agree with such a thing, you will be able to justify it and rise higher.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/13/24, Writings of Rabash “Knowledge and Faith”

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