Question: What is the difference in work in faith above reason during descents and during ascents?

Answer: In descents, I do not have much faith above reason; it is hard for me to fulfill these conditions. That is why this state is called a descent. In an ascent, I am ready to do everything because I have strength, enthusiasm, and joy.

Question: How can we correctly add to the greatness of the Creator, and what is the practice that contributes to the growth of faith?

Answer: We must add the greatness of the Creator correctly in any state. We need to always strive for this.

If you act together with your friends, it increases and strengthens your faith in the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/13/24, Writings of Rabash “Knowledge and Faith”

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Question: Is recognition of evil a necessary part of faith above reason?

Answer: It is necessary because we are all evil.

Question: Where do the right intentions come from? From reason or faith above reason?

Answer: From the light of the Creator.

Question: How can I stop myself from criticizing the seemingly unworthy behavior of a neighbor?

Answer: You just need to stop yourself to criticize others. It is unacceptable.

Question: In the ten we unite, support each other, and feel great pleasure, but do not associate it with the Creator. It is hard to keep Him in focus all the time. How do we return this pleasure to Him?

Answer: You must connect yourself, the Creator, pleasure, and all other elements of this connection. You will see that everything will be easy to do this way, easy.

Question: What helps us rise above evil so that the Creator honors us with goodness?

Answer: We must desire sincerely to rise above evil, and the Creator will help.

Question: What is this force that reveals evil? Am I revealing evil or the Creator?

Answer: The Creator. The Light of the Creator.
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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: It is said that the food for the soul is faith. What else can fill the soul besides faith?

Answer: Any impulse to bestow is between you and between you and the Creator. It fills the soul.

Question: We always have food for the soul: we have a teacher, primary sources, and friends. How can we increase the desire for the reward to receive vessels of bestowal?

Answer: It depends on how you are connected. You must constantly show each other how important it is.

Question: If the Creator takes away the connection that nourished your soul, then does one need to look for another connection or try to awaken what He took away?

Answer: Perhaps what He took away is no longer usable and we need to look for something new. Try it. Do not delay; you must immediately respond to such conditions.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/13/24, Writings of Rabash “Knowledge and Faith”

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Question: How does one avoid confusing faith above reason with faith below reason?

Answer: Faith above reason is faith despite reason. Faith below reason is when you invent faith, which does not require any work.

Question: Do we need to confirm that a righteous person is righteous?

Answer: No, it is absolutely not necessary. Faith above reason can arise without any connection between a person and his teacher.

Question: How do we find the righteous man we follow in the ten?

Answer: You need to turn to the teacher teaching you and do actions that help you adhere to him so that you can follow his words as truth.
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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 feel that faith above reason influences us now and that it is leading us out of low states?

Answer: You do have knowledge, but go against it in the power of faith, contrary to your knowing. That is how you move forward.

If you are trying to unite hearts, it means that there is faith in them. Whenever there is a chance, you must re-choose the point of faith above reason and move from there.

Question: How can we act correctly above knowledge regarding the material world, and is it necessary to seek balance?

Answer: There is no need. Just cut yourself off from the material world whenever you can. Engage in spiritual things, and if necessary, return to the material.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/12/24, Writings of Rabash “Faith Is Called “Action”

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Question: If the Creator shows some miracles coming from our unification, should I believe there is something even higher? How should I work with it? Should I give thanks for everything or not settle for little and ask for a bigger miracle?

Answer: No, we have no right to disagree with the Creator since, by doing so, we break the connection between us and Him.

There are no miracles; it just seems so to us. We must ask the Creator to allow us to treat our friends the way we imagine our relationship with Him. The whole system will balance itself this way.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/10/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “A Pomegranate”

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Question: The more a person puts in internal and external efforts to please others, the more he feels rejection. What kind of punishment is this, and how can one get out of it?

Answer: We must always strive for love and look for opportunities to show love to our friends and from them to the Creator.

Question: And what if such a search turns a person in the opposite direction—the more one searches for ways to show love, the more obstacles one gets in response?

Answer: Well, that is good. That is given to us so that we can show even more love.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/13/24, Writings of Rabash “Knowledge and Faith”

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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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