Question: Lately, I cannot understand what faith above reason is. Could you explain how one reaches this state, and what it actually is? As I understand, it is given by the Creator, and without this faith, one cannot move anywhere.

Answer: Faith above reason is that the intention to bestow and love are higher (in importance) than the intention for one’s own sake.

This happens under the influence of the surrounding light that descends during study, and while participating in the group, and dissemination. Until the light gives you this quality, you cannot understand it.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 1/28/08

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It is very easy to determine whether a path is spiritual: everything we agree with is not spiritual!

What does belong to it are precisely the opposite things, which are not accepted by our reason and feelings and are unwanted and hated. Those are exactly what we must work on.

If I do not feel any benefit from some state, neither emotionally nor mentally, then only by rising above that state can I begin to build the spiritual. After all, in such a case I am certainly not bribed or seeking personal gain, and in order to rise above it, I will need the help of the Creator.

So I constantly check myself: to what extent does my body resist my work? And this becomes a sign of correct advancement for me.

Then I need to look at why I am doing this. Maybe I want to rise above myself and pursue some personal goals.

Or maybe I want to find the love of the Creator, which is repugnant to our “body”—the egoistic mind and feeling. And I am looking for love that is entirely built on hatred of egoistic thoughts and desires about myself.

But often we do not try to rise above our body, but regret that we cannot work according to the mind and feelings contained within the body, rather than seeking the state that lies above reason and feeling, and desiring to be in it.

First of all, we must push the body down with all its feelings and reason, be above them, and not take them into account. That is, we take them into account only in order to rise above them. This is called faith above reason.

Instead we lament: why is everything not revealed to my mind so that I could act like a sensible person, and know that I possess intellect and my own strength for proper advancement?
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson, 8/30/10, Rabash, Article 35

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Indeed, you should know that the reason for our great distance from the Creator, and that we are so prone to transgress His will, is for but one reason which became the source of all the torment and suffering we suffer, and for all the sins and the mistakes that we fail in (Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“).

It is necessary that the question of why we are distant from the Creator, why we do not feel Him, should burn within us.

Clearly, by removing that reason, we will instantly be rid of any sorrow or pain. We will immediately be granted adhesion with Him in heart, soul, and might. 

Baal HaSulam says we should know that the true reason for our distance from the Creator lies in the lack of our feeling, awareness, and knowledge of Him. After all, we do not feel Him as the One who is within us and who governs us.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/29/25, Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot”

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Question: What is faith in the wisdom of Kabbalah?

Answer: Faith is bestowal above reception. We use the force of faith because within a person, there is no inherent force of bestowal; one must receive it from the Creator. Through the influence of the upper light on a person, the ability to bestow is created within him.

It is like a magnet holding a piece of metal. The ability to bestow is maintained in a person only because he is under the influence of the upper light, and that is why it is called faith. He must be permeated by this impression from above, and only then can he perform altruistic actions, selfless calculations. That is why it is called faith.

If bestowal arose from his own strength, it would not be called faith. It exists only on condition that the upper light conveys its quality to the person and creates the ability to bestow within him. The quality of bestowal in a created being comes from its similarity to the upper light, its aspiration toward the upper one, and therefore, it is called faith.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/4/2012, Writings of Rabash, Article No.16, 1988 ”What Is the Foundation on which Kedusha [Holiness] Is Built?”

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Question: If I know that I will eventually reveal the Creator’s open governance, how can I use this knowledge without egoism? I believe that sooner or later I will attain the Creator and it seems that I can already apply my future state now.

Answer: How can you apply it?

Comment: Through faith that I will reveal the Creator.

My Response: You do not yet have the quality of faith. You simply think that someday in the future you will attain it. Whether you attain it now or another time is unknown.

Therefore, focus on further advancement together with the group of friends toward the revelation of the Creator through ever-greater unity. Everything depends on the strength of your connection.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/29/25,  Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: If I go by faith above reason and justify the Creator yet still experience suffering—is this a correct work?

Answer: If you are experiencing suffering, then is that really the correct work?

In the beginning, you agree with the Creator, intending to correct yourself according to what is written in the sources. But then it turns out to be the opposite.

I hope you understand what I mean.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/2/25, Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: What is this feeling when, after a lesson, you start missing your friends, feeling them as parts of your body you cannot be without; that is, you constantly want to be one with them?

Answer: This is the right feeling. Keep studying, complete all assigned tasks for the groups, and you will see yourself rise out of this state upward.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/2/25, Baal HaSulam, “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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