Faith above reason is the topic we must constantly return to. In relation to it, we will experience ascents and descents, all of our work is focused around this point.

Faith above reason means that bestowal becomes higher than reception, that is, a person enters a state in which they live by the force of bestowal. Naturally, one rises and falls again, but gradually one begins to conquer this territory, “the field blessed by the Creator,” where one remains in understanding, awareness, and the aspiration to hold on to faith.

If I don’t check what I have received, it is called faith below reason. Because I have no reason, I haven’t verified what I received, I just believed it blindly. That kind of faith is actually lower than reason; there is no knowledge, only blind belief. In spirituality, this is not considered faith, it is only in religion.

For faith above reason, I must first have my own opinion and know, according to it, what is happening. I know that there are not $1,000 in the envelope, but $999, or even only $1, and yet I accept it as a $1,000. This difference determines my spiritual degree. I must have these two clear points: reason and faith, Malchut and Bina.

Faith above reason means that I accept those $999 as $1,000, wholeheartedly. Of course, you should not behave this way in a store; we are not talking about this world, but only about the spiritual one. In the spiritual realm, one must advance by faith above reason, for there we build our relationship with the Creator above our own understanding, more and more so each time. Spirituality is based not on the force of reason, but on the force of faith.

I advance based on what the Kabbalist says, because I do not wish to rely on the opinion of my own egoism. To the extent that I can nullify myself in relation to the upper, I acquire the force of faith with which I can progress together with the upper’s mind and heart.

In the corporeal world, this doesn’t work because there is only one dimension. But in the spiritual world, there are two degrees: me and the upper (AHP of the upper). I follow the opinion of the upper’s AHP. I include myself in the upper’s opinion, and since I adhere to it, I can ascend with it. This is possible only because I have accepted its opinion, which has become my faith.

This is the difference between the lower and the upper degrees. In the perception (Kelim) of the upper there are $1,000; in my perception, $999. I know, feel, and understand that I lack $1, that in my pocket there are $999 and not $1,000. But in the Kelim of the upper there are $1,000, and I fill that empty space within me with the force of the upper, I feel myself whole thanks to Him.

About faith above reason, it is said: “They have eyes but do not see; they have ears but do not hear.” I have eyes, ears, a heart, and a mind; I am an intelligent person; I understand and feel everything at my level, “judging only by what my eyes see,” standing firmly on the ground.

But the question is: How can I rise to a degree higher than myself? By what kind of elevator? Where is that lift, that means, by which I can exchange my feelings and intellect for those of an upper degree, to rise from the state of “I” to “I + 1”?

For that, I must go by faith above reason.

From above, they constantly reveal an empty space to me and I must fill it with faith. When I fill it with faith, I feel that it becomes filled with reason. Then again, darkness opens, an empty space that must be filled with faith.

And with this force of faith, I ascend to the next degree, which again becomes reason.

Thus, we grow: Ibur–Yenika–Mochin (embryo–nursing–maturity), each time ascending and perceiving the darkness and emptiness revealed to us as a part of the upper, next degree above us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/5/19, “Work with Faith Above Reason”

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I must not agree with everything that happens around me because everything I see is perceived through my egoistic sensations. Yet I want to use all of it correctly to direct myself in the right way.

I do not seek to change reality or to leave it as it is; I want to change my perception, my sensations, so that I may see the true picture in which one force, one energy, one intention, one source, is revealed.

I do not strive to reveal the Creator directly, but rather to acquire the instrument (Kli) for His revelation. For how can I see something that is ten kilometers away from me? I need binoculars, that is, an instrument. And the instrument for revealing the Creator is the connection between us. This is where we apply all our efforts.

To the extent that we unite and focus together, the clarity of our vision increases. Then, instead of a blurred picture, instead of billions of people, animals, and plants, I begin to see more and more clearly the one single force and the one source.

The upper light is at absolute rest; what we need is only the instrument (Kli) for its revelation, an instrument whose qualities resemble those of the light itself.

The ten and the world group protect the person who is within them, acting as a buffer, an absorber, that softens external tremors, like the ten concealed Sefirot.

How should one respond correctly to each situation? I don’t understand what is happening, nor do I know what to do. The main thing is to integrate into the group as much as possible and use this instrument, and constantly tune myself in relation to the others.

Although I am only one individual Sefira within the ten, I tune it relative to the entire structure, and then I understand what is required of me. Just like a guitar string is tuned by comparing its sound with the others, so too must I constantly tune myself relative to the group; otherwise, my state will not change.

And after my friends have helped me tune myself correctly in relation to them, I must lift them up. Here my true work begins. This is a living system in which a constant process of exchange and interaction takes place.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/9/20, “Work with Faith Above Reason”

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Question: When does a person first establish connection with the Creator?

Answer: Do you think that you don’t have this connection right now? A newborn baby who knows nothing about it has the strongest bond with his mother. And later we will have to build screens above our desire to receive pleasure.

The younger we are spiritually, the smaller we are, the closer we are to the beginning of the path, the stronger our connection is with the Creator. After all, for now, we are not disturbed by the various wisdoms and unfolding egoistic desires that separate us from the Creator.

The point of adhesion is built by a person separates from the Creator the desire to enjoy that is revealed in him and merges with the Creator above this desire. But now we are merged with the Creator through our desires in a natural way.

In other words, a person is always in adhesion with the Creator; the only difference is what percentage of this adhesion is attributed to the Creator and how much is attributed to the person himself. Let us assume it is 40/60 now, that is what my spiritual degree is called. If 125 steps are taken as 100%, then I am currently at two-thirds of the height of the ladder.

The more desires that are revealed in me and I correct, the greater the adhesion that was achieved through the power of the upper, I can now take upon myself and sustain with my own strength.

But we never leave the adhesion with the Creator. Nothing changes except our understanding, awareness, and attainment of one single constant, unchanging state.
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From the 1^st part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 12/26/12, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: In the Introduction to TES, it is written: “You will see your world in your life.”

I perceive this as a reward for our unification; that is, we receive the light, and it corrects us. How can one avoid using this knowledge egoistically?

Answer: If I think only about spiritual closeness with the Creator, that is, with the quality of bestowal, then I will naturally advance correctly. This is what I must think about constantly.

Question: When we enter the work in the Torah, we still do not have a clear understanding of what Lishma is, or where our desires lie. Entering is easy, but it is very difficult to maintain precision and strength in turning to the Creator. How can we gain confidence that we possess that very faith that will lead us to this?

Answer: This is something we must work on.

Question: Do we have the ability to feel and direct the power of Torah toward the place of defect and corruption? Or would it be more correct to rely on the actions of the light upon us?

Answer: These are two completely different directions. We will study them later.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/10/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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Question: Do we need to go through suffering in order to reach high states?

Answer: Of course, it’s not necessary. We just need to understand which stages we must go through within our desire and try to do it as quickly as possible. The main thing is to overcome the current phase we’re going through now when we don’t quite understand where we are and get out of it as soon as possible. But we must get out of it correctly.

Question: So, in order to get out correctly, do we need to accelerate through connection between us?

Answer: Everything happens through connection.
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From the 2^nd part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/10/25, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Introduction to The Study of the Ten Sefirot“

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It is as our sages wrote (Berachot 32), “Rabbi Shamlai said, ‘One should always praise the Creator, and then pray.’ Where did we get that? From Moses, as it is written, ‘And I besought the Lord at that time.’ It is also written, ‘O Lord God, Thou hast begun,’ and it is written, ‘Let me go over, I pray Thee, and see the good land.’”

And the reason we need to begin with praising the Creator is that it is natural that there are two conditions when one asks for something of another:

1. That he has what I ask of him, such as wealth, power, and repute as being wealthy and affluent.
2. That he will have a kind heart, meaning a desire to do good to others

(Rabash, Article 17, “The Agenda of the Assembly”).

Question: Why must one first give praise to the Creator?

Answer: Because I want to feel nothing else in life or in the world besides the greatness of the Creator. I need nothing more.

This dictates all my thoughts, desires, actions, and my view of the world. It shapes my worldview and creates a correct picture of reality. The greatness of the Creator is above everything.

If some inconsistency, problem, or threat arises, the greatness of the Creator covers everything. I understand that it is He Himself who places this before me so that I may further exalt Him in my eyes. That is the only thing I must work on.

I need the greatness of the Creator in order to bestow upon Him, to act for His sake, and not to think about myself so that His importance will overshadow my egoism.

Question: And does the Creator help in this?

Answer: He is ready to help me if I ask Him. But each time, it becomes harder for me to ask and to convince Him that I must feel His greatness; otherwise, I will not be able to remain constantly directed toward Him.

Question: Does this happen because the Creator desires that I continually turn to Him?

Answer: The Creator certainly wants us to turn to Him, but He never pulls us toward Himself so as not to deprive us of freewill.

Question: And is this why we need the environment (the ten, the group, the teacher), to strike at this single point?

Answer: Yes, only in order to reveal the greatness of the Creator. Alone, I cannot reveal it. I must work with others. The Creator is revealed to me only through the ten. The ten is the prism through which He acts upon me.

Question: What, in this case, is the prayer for the friends?

Answer: Here, there are no friends and no “me.” There is the entire creation, everything created by the Creator, myself and Him. I want to become a conduit of the Creator’s light to all of creation. That is what it means to become a servant of the Creator.
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From KabTV’s Program “The Last Generation” 6/6/18

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Faith above reason allows one to see reality as the Creator sees it.

Ordinarily, we perceive the world through our egoistic knowledge, through the lens of self-interest. The Creator deliberately created us within egoism in which we feel ourselves and the world as separate and limited.

But through faith above reason, we elevate ourselves to the degree of bestowal, to the level of Bina, and enter into the Creator’s vision, into His world, into His perception of reality.

Therefore, faith above reason is not self-deception or imagination. On the contrary, it transfers us into the true world, the world of truth. Then we see ourselves within the reality of the Creator and behold all things through His eyes.

Faith above reason is the highest degree—the attribute of Bina, of bestowal, the quality of the Creator Himself. When we enter this quality, relative to us it is called faith above reason, for reason represents the view of our egoism, while faith represents the degree of Bina, bestowal, the level of the Creator.

Thus, when we strive for faith, we do not become dreamers or idealists. On the contrary, by doing so, we attain the world of truth, a reality untainted by our egoism.
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From the Preparation for the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/23/20

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One who wishes to work for the Creator must include himself in all creations, that is, feel their desires, join with all souls, and include himself in them and them in himself.

He leaves for himself only what is necessary for connection with the Creator, and all the rest of his desire becomes included in the general creation. Desire is given to us only for this purpose, to connect with everyone.

And for this, it is necessary to connect oneself with all creations and raise them to their root. It turns out that only a point in the heart remains in each of us, and all the other qualities, desires, and intentions are needed only in order to connect with everyone, to connect everyone with the Creator through this point in the heart, and through this point in the heart to transmit the response from the Creator back to everyone else.

A person who works in this way is called “Adam” and is the receptacle of the entire huge vessel of one soul. Each of us can become such a person because everyone has their own point in the heart through which they connect to the Creator and transmit a unique message from everyone to the Creator and from the Creator to everyone.

It turns out that each person is a complete Adam, and the entire structure that is created by the Creator, by the soul, belongs to everyone. But each person has their own specific one, and is connected through their point in the heart.

By giving each of us a point in the heart, the Creator allowed everything else to be connected to it, and made it a specific, individual, personal soul of each one. And then all the points in the heart are joined together into one common Kli: Adam.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 10/8/18, Preparation for the Congress

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Faith above reason is the entry into the spiritual world because it is precisely what determines our place. It is like an identity card that testifies to who a person is, where he stands in relation to humanity, to his egoism, to the Creator, and to all of reality. This single parameter—faith above reason—defines the entire person.

Day by day, we work again and again on faith above reason until we gradually enter it. This may take a long time, but each time we take another step forward.

And we must also believe with faith above reason that every day we advance toward this concept until it becomes a part of a person, determining one’s spiritual degree: a person already in the world of truth, that is, the spiritual world, in adhesion with the friends and with the Creator and ascending the spiritual ladder.

It is said that our task is to make efforts, and the salvation of the Creator comes in the blink of an eye. This means that we begin to feel a yearning to love all the friends. All these different faces on the screen awaken love in me because they are the closest people to me, closer even than my own family, because we are the closest to one another within the system of the common soul, Adam HaRishon.

And it does not matter that one is from Africa, another from Italy, and a third from the Far East; this has no significance whatsoever because we judge not by the material qualities of this world, but according to spiritual ones. In this sense, we are the closest people to each other, neighboring parts of one soul.

Connection between us is possible only through the feeling of love when each one wants to cling to the other, to help them. Love covers all transgressions, and despite all difficulties, I desire to unite with my friends.

Therefore, the yearning for correction is a yearning for love. The wisdom of Kabbalah speaks only about sensations, because the Creator created the desire to enjoy, the desire to feel fulfillment. Hence, we must clarify what we want to feel and in which organs of perception.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 6/7/20, “Work with Faith Above Reason”

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If I do not yet understand what faith above reason is or how to attain it, it is not my fault; this stems from the very nature of creation. There is egoism in each of us that, does not allow one to rise above oneself and comprehend how it is possible to exist above the desire to receive pleasure and to turn outward, beyond the ego. That very state is called faith above reason.

I must make a restriction (Tzimtzum) on my desire to receive and rise above it toward bestowal.

To act for the sake of bestowal means:

• What is outside of me becomes dearer to me than myself.
• I accept it as defining and decisive.
• My entire life depends on the group and on the Creator.
• I hand myself over to them, dissolve within them, and wish to keep nothing for myself except for one single point—my root point within the system of Adam HaRishon.
• With that one point, I wish to exist within the friends, to be included in everything that is within them.

This means I have faith above reason, the power of bestowal I tap into and by which I begin gradually and repeatedly to build myself.

Ultimately, every person must perform this inner work because this is what spirituality means: the degree of Bina is higher than Malchut when we strive to think, feel, understand, and perceive according to the higher degree, above ourselves.

I do not ascend by abandoning my place but by building an additional level of perception upon it. It is not about becoming more intelligent or more sensitive; that would only be an inner, egoistic development.

Spiritual development means that I rise above my natural perception and wish to perceive everything through the importance of the friends.

We must remember that all the degrees and all the states already exist in reality; we need only make the effort to enter them.

I bring myself to the degree of faith, the degree of Bina, meaning that those who are outside of me, the group and the Creator, become more important than myself. In this form, I begin to see, feel, and hear what occurs within the friends and not within me. And this relation, this orientation toward what happens in others and not in myself grants me a spiritual sensation.

If I were to feel only what occurs in the friends, I would be an angel.

But if I feel myself and am also within the friends and within the Creator, perceiving and understanding what transpires with them, then I am called a Kabbalist, which is a far higher degree than that of an angel.
Here, one begins to touch the true spiritual qualities.

Above reason means to act according to the desire to bestow, for the sake of connection, according to spiritual definitions—not corporeal ones. In the material world, everyone exists separately; there is no connection. Each one acts for oneself and not for bestowal.

But I strive to establish the state of unity and mutual bestowal, to begin to sense such a reality and to view the entire world through it.

I want to see everyone through different eyes, not my own, but through the eyes of the ten.

And the same applies to my sensations, my heart, my mind; in everything I strive to attain collective perception, to see the world not as a single person, but as a ten.

Because the ten is a spiritual structure, a Partzuf, and whatever is revealed within it is a spiritual state.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 9/8/20, “Work with Faith Above Reason”

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