Morning Lesson September 13, 2021, Transcription
Part 1:
Faith Above Reason - Selected Excerpts from the Sources, #23
1.Rav’s Introduction: Yes, we are continuing with the study of what is faith above reason, how can we establish it between us in the group and one towards the other and towards the Creator. Let's continue, where are we? There it talks about different manners of faith and reason and what is the relationship between them that can be, so please.
Excerpt 23 (01:07) Twice
2. R. (02:29) This is similar to how it is with every religious person no matter what their religion is. He doesn't check because he has no way to check it rather, he just accepts it and believes it. He accepts it as a fact.
Reader continues (02:44)
R. (03:14) That is he checked and he saw that what the other side says is true, right, that's it so this is called faith within reason because his reason and his faith are equal.
Reader continues (03:33)
R. (04:05) That it is it resists it, it contradicts the reason it is clear to him, it is in contradiction. However, he accepts what the other one says as higher than his own reason and this is why it is called faith, the reason of the other, faith above reason. Now, why is this accepted by us on the spiritual path because each time we have to rise above whatever our ego is telling us and, in this way, we can rise to a higher degree and a higher degree but the ego is right. Of course, it is right on our level, it is correct, that is true, but I have to accept the reason, the view that comes to me from a higher degree and I cannot check it. I can only see that it is higher than me and I disagree according to my reason, I don't agree with it but I accept it and therefore when I accept it my attitude to it is called faith.
Reader continues (05:22)
R. (06:04) He doesn't check he accepts it because he believes the other.
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R. (08:05) This actually tells us how we relate to life, each and every moment either I believe in advance what I'm told, usually it's babies who are not so developed, religious people, where there is no choice, so we are simply follow such a path or we very much want to believe what we have before us. The second thing, number two, pertains to science that whatever I feel I receive everything that I have contact with that I engage with, I measure it, I count it and this is what I take into account and faith doesn't matter to me. What matters to me is only the reason. That is in the first case, I accept everything only with faith without reason, I don't count and the second case I say except everything according to how I count and this is called within reason. In the third case,
Reader continues (09:18)
R. (09:33) Well if it's $1 we can understand maybe from $1,000 that one is missing, maybe there's a thousand there, maybe I made a mistake but if I count it 3 times that I didn't make a mistake but okay. But instead of a thousand dollars there's only $1 there and 999 are missing. Then the gap between what I count and what I receive, what I accept as a fact when I receive it, becomes a fact for me, right? So, it turns out that here for me, there is faith above reason and how much and as much as how much I am missing the dollars in the envelope that the friend gave me back and I accept them as something that is complete and whole. This is called faith above reason, meaning the view of the other is more important than my view. This is how we relate to it in the wisdom of Kabbalah. We have here one, people who believe, religious people of all sorts, with all kinds of religions and faiths. Two, these people in science who have a scientific approach to our world and the third one is Kabbalah and there are no other approaches all-in-all three approaches.
3. S. (11:03) With respect to reason I relate to the $1,000 but with faith above reason what is this thing that I relate to, that I accept as complete it's not the t$1,000?
R. The importance of the one who paid me back. That he in my eyes is more important and more trustworthy than I myself.
S. In other words I achieve a different connection with him?
R. I achieve a connection with him, I attain his view, this is how I replace my view, with his view, so that his view is more important for me that I want to see reality through his eyes.
S. But what is his view, in this case he gave me a certain amount?
R. His view is he gave me $1,000. This is the truth. My view is false, it’s a lie. I replace my view with his view and this is how I gradually take on his qualities, his relations, his perspective to each and everything. This is called make your will as his will. Take it slowly, it will settle in us, it takes time, we have to understand that this principle is our only correction throughout the entire spiritual path. This is the only thing that we need in order to rise from how we see things in our eyes to the Creator's eyes. That's it. So, to rise from Malchut from what I count and what I have in my hand to what the Creator sees, he counts according to the force of bestowal, I count according to the force of reception so how can I replace it? To replace it with faith above reason, each time to do this calculation and accept the fact that what I don't see but however this is what the upper one is giving to me, this is the truth and this way gradually we build inside of us the image of the Creator until we clothe in him and then through him, we see the whole of reality. Then we remain on the one hand created beings and on the other hand we become like him. This is the correction.
4. S. (14:00) I don't understand, if I count the dollars and there's $1 less or there's $999 less, I don't understand what is this thing with which I can overcome the fact that there is money missing?
R. It's not missing, you simply accept the view of the other that this is the truth, it is not missing. The fact that it's missing is something else. That's missing, meaning that then you will stay in the second state, the second state is that he counts even three times and then he accepts it. You count it, you have to count right, this is called reason and afterwards you accept the view of the other above your own view that contradicts your view, in your view, in your reason you see it's incorrect what he says but you accept what he says because he is greater. You accept him as greater than you, above you. This is considered faith above reason. It is a very special approach to the perception of reality. Take it slowly, another step and another step, to get into it is very difficult. This is the main difficulty in the spiritual perception for us to be able to adapt ourselves to it, this is how we shift to the spiritual perception, we will start to feel then, how is spirituality arranged according to which software, which program, according to which window does it open. Go ahead and ask the more you ask you will see that you are all in the same confusions and disagreement and inability. No one was born in the quality of Bina. We were all born in Malchut.
5. S. (16:46) In number three, there's a spiritual state that I'm supposed to establish. Is it something I have to reach or build to come to this vision in faith in the Creator? it doesn’t 't talk about something I can create in my current state, it talks about something spiritual, right?
R. Yes, you accept what the Creator is presenting to you in the force of faith as a spiritual fact. What Kabbalists are telling you, is that this is how you need to behave. You gradually need to accept their advice as the laws of the spiritual world. Accordingly, certainly you need to start to behave. Then you will see that indeed this is how the true nature that we exist in, this is how it behaves. Therefore, the more we will take these principles and follow them and arrange our lives according to them, we will see ourselves as correctly arranged and we are not mistaken and the world truly becomes the next world paradise instead of our world. This is how it will be.
6. S. (18:45) We often say that the judge has eyes and he sees what he sees and a person has to do some scrutiny in the spiritual works, so how do you scrutinize if you have vessels of reception? You see with your eyes that you didn't receive the thousand dollars so why not check, maybe we should just annul ourselves and that's it not to get into the reason, use this experience and say I'm wrong anyway so why do I need my reason anyway?
R. That is incorrect, because if you don't count then you didn't even begin your contact with the Creator. It's as if you didn't enter the shop, you didn't approach the seller. But rather what we need is to gradually replace our perception with his force up. It will happen you will see if there's many questions and there will be many more questions. I'm very happy with it, that this is how it is working for us because by that we are truly trying we are making efforts to adapt ourselves to the Creator's mind or emotion or Bina.
S. The experience in this process, is it clear to me later?
R. Yes, it all follows the experience that we constantly get it and a few minutes later and this is how we rise it is like a little child who grows. So, he grows out of the experience that he gets each and every day in his life he looks at others and this is how it is with us.
7. S (21:16) What is this point of transition that I can relate it to the Creator because we know everything is done by the Creator and we need to judge every person favorably in the world but if in the store someone gives me not enough money back, I don't say I go with above reason. So, when do I relate it to the Creator, when do I know I make contact with the Creator?
R. We are not telling you how to behave in this world. With all the people that you meet in your life, in your life you should behave like everyone behaves. Also, we see this in religious people of all sorts. It doesn't matter what religion it is; they all accept what the religion is telling them without checking. How do you check, they just accept it, their relatives tell them about that or religious people tell them about it and they just accept it and this is how they live. Meaning it's impossible to check it. This is why their faith is considered faith below reason, they just accept whatever there is. You cannot count and he does not need to count, that kind of faith is kind of respected by them. We are saying the opposite, we are not following the science where they count everything and they take into account whatever they get from the calculation and we don't follow the religion where they don't count and they accept everything like it is the truth. Rather we are in the middle, it's called the middle line truly. We can't relate to all of these things just like in science and on the other hand we accept all those results above what we see in science. By that we rise on the degrees, we enter the feeling of the spiritual system, the feeling of the upper force that is establishing for us those conditions. This is how we get to know the Creator another step and another step little by little, it takes some time but we are already beginning somehow to have a feel.
S. In the case of the example, in the third example you could say that this measurement of the faith above reason is $1. What if the one gives not $9 back but $900 you could say that the measure of his faith above reason is $100, what is expanding in the person when he raises in this way the faith above reason, what is growing?
R. To the extent that the gap between the faith in the reason is greater, this is how he rises. At first, he believes over $1 and then 2 and then 3 until he sees the envelope and he sees instead of $1,000 he sees $1.
8. S. (25:48) With respect to whom do we need this faith towards the friends or towards the Creator?
R. We need this faith in order to calibrate ourselves to the spiritual perception, to see the reality. That it exists right here around us but we do not feel it. Because I feel everything the way I was born only within my reason, in my will to receive, in Malchut. What I need, well I need to try to reach a state, and we need to shift to above reason. This is all of our work. We don't need anything more than that.
9. S. (27:35) I understood from previous lesson that faith is like Bina, bestowal. I would like to understand the difference between faith above reason and Bina
R. That is the same thing Bina is above Malchut. Bina is the quality of the Creator. bestowal and we are in Malchut in the quality of reception. In order for us to feel the Creator and understand him we have to rise from the perception of Malchut to the perception of Bina. This is called to rise to faith above reason, so now we are explaining precisely to ourselves though those foundations of the new perception, the spiritual perception and gradually we will have to adapt our senses to the spiritual senses. Then we will have both reason which is Malchut and also faith above reason which is the quality of Bina which is above Malchut not just faith but faith above reason. Then we will begin accordingly to discover the upper force and to see reality in the same upper force in the eyes of the Creator. Accordingly, to that extent that we will be able to see reality like the Creator we will be called Adam, similar to the Creator.
10. S. (29:38) What in our spiritual work are the dollars that I have to count before I accept the amount above reason?
R. Actually we need to check all of those attributes, perceptions, qualities in relation, all in all, our attitude towards reality. When we will be on the spiritual degree already, we will have to establish each time all of the qualities which are ten Sefirot. How do we establish them? In the form of bestowal. How can I take my qualities of reception and raise them to the quality of bestowal?
11. S. (30:48) Can we draw a parallel with the excerpt that talks about buy yourself a friend and make for yourself a Rav with the second category with buy yourself a friend and make yourself a Rav?
R. It's on the way, it's not the same thing but it's on the way.
12. S. (31:22) I'd like to understand when that dollar is missing should I tell myself that is for my benefit what I'm not getting this dollar, I see that it was for my benefit, the connection with the friends is better, you love them more, but I see it only afterwards. So, should I say that the fact that I don't see this dollar is for my benefit?
R. know what you're talking about now is you're talking about the approach that we can say is bestowing order to receive you are willing to pay $1 in order to later understand and feel that you are advancing. This is not called that you were going with faith you are simply paying in order to receive. No, that is something else but it will come, you need to search more and more and out of these searches there is a reason for them. The fact why we have to make efforts out of them, you will start to make a tangible of what does it mean to feel spirituality.
S. So it turns out that I accept it completely and what happens afterwards?
R. Well you seemingly want to clothe in the Creator's perception. In that perception you want to look at reality and along with that, with the fact that you are maintaining and keeping your perception and your image. So, you have two things, you have the perception through your will to receive which is called reason and you have their perception through the perspective, view of the other and this is called faith and you are going according to his eyes and everything that he has so it is called faith above reason. When you accept his view for you it is called faith.
S. So this dollar is the blow to my ego at first but on the other hand I want to understand his intention?
R. Yes, and again I say relate to these things with great patience. Because this is something that is not so easy, it takes a lot of time, sometimes even years until a person who tries to be in it begins to get a feeling for what does it even mean to be in my view and to clothe in the others view and to accept reality through that perception of the other. That I accept it and I arrange it as more important than my perception, this is called faith above reason. When the view of the other is more important than my view.
13. S. (34:59) How can I be certain that it is real and not my fantasy?
R. You can check you can count and do whatever you want and then you can decide. Everything is before you.
14. S. (35:35) In both the first and second and third examples, we ignore ourselves but we are learning the wisdom of Kabbalah, we learn the laws of the upper world and above it we seemingly build the feeling that afterwards we can measure and check, so it is something completely different now.
R. That is true it is something different and the more we will learn with our reason the wisdom of Kabbalah by that we will not become Kabbalists. We will become Kabbalists only on the condition that we will learn how to relate to reality through the force of Bina and not through the force of Malchut. Here as much as a person studies as it says it's not the wise one who studies as much as one studies, it doesn't help him so much but rather if he studies in order to draw the reforming light, the force of bestowal, that will come to him during the study and we'll give him the possibility to be in faith above reason then he succeeds and becomes a Kabbalist, otherwise he is just studying wisdom.
S. But as a result of this work we will nevertheless reach the point where we will attain these laws and understand them through our feelings?
R. When, who?
S. The Kabbalists, they write in these books and they tell us about these laws. Within reason they do reach agreement between the reason in the feeling.
R. As we are learning now what Kabbalists feel. What they feel, they feel in the power of bestowal above the power of reception. So, the force of bestowal contradicts the force of reception. It will come, you're a smart guy, you have a lot of intellect and it will be difficult for you.
15. S. (38:15) Everything they say I believe them even though I have certain doubts, is that correct?
R. No but keep going and you will discover where it is and where it isn't and why.
16. S. (38:46) Is faith above reason like making a concession?
R. It is a profound scrutiny where the spiritual perception of reality becomes higher and more important, more sublime and contradictory to the corporeal perception.
17. S. (39:23) According to the third message the Creator gave me reason to rise?
R. Yes, our entire spiritual ascent, the entry into the spiritual world is through faith above reason.
the person after many attempts realizes in his mind that the approach should be that he doesn't see the true reality. But he realizes he sees a certain reality and he wants to get in touch with the designer who showed him this particular reality. This is possible only through faith above reason and he tries and tries to do it but he doesn't succeed because his mind is not corrected yet, this approach. So, he reaches such critical states, black light, in short very difficult states and still there is no sign. I realize that patience is a key word here but until the end of life he might not reach it.
R. Look I understand you as a scientist, you still remain a scientist. You need to understand that the approach of faith above reason doesn't contradict science, it's just that we divide man's perception in our situation into three possibilities. It's not like one contradicts the other, it is just that there are three different approaches to the perception of reality. Einstein's perception also seems to contradict our reality of our perception and there are other such perceptions. We need to understand that here there is a new perception. In science and math, you have many such things that you accept in a new matrix and through it you decipher reality. It is a kind of instrument through which you begin to see reality in a different way. Above time and place and movement, above the limitations we have in our physical body.
Because reality isn't built exactly necessarily towards our physical body we don't know where we are. Each day such phenomena are revealed that are not suitable with us. Yet we want to approach them and discover this is how Kabbalists gradually discovered the upper reality. They discovered you can reveal it and continue to reveal it and open it up completely. In what is within man and above man. Above meaning that the conditions we have in reason and faith that don't exist in animals. For example, animals have only what they feel. But we want to be above it, we don't want to be bounded and limited but we see according to the present reality that we are really in the world that we don't understand. This is why now the wisdom of Kabbalah comes and opens up the world to us and says you want to know where you are, who you are and how to understand and what to do. By all means, on the one hand it gives us troubles so we'll take an interest in this from the animal level, on our beastly level. On the other hand, it gives us all kinds of higher spiritual discernments in science also. We see that all of nature's forces support our advancement towards this method of faith above reason. Because even in our present world that we perceive with our corporeal senses, our physical senses, here too, we can't really exist because we don't really understand it.
It has become strange upside down and threatening so from every direction nature, which is God, the upper force is pushing us to enter a new mind, a new approach, a new reality, a true one. Where facts are not according to what we were born with and what we were used to according to our beast but to see the world in a broader way. With several pieces of information, data, that we can change. That 1 + 1 isn't necessarily 2. According to what we accept with our intellect and this is called faith above reason, it's a new principle, that precisely to the extent that I go against my reason, by this I advance. I emerge from my own reason, from Malchut, from the vessels of reception and I attach myself more and more to vessels of bestowal. Let's understand a little bit where it is. This is why the work in the group should help us so much. Because I go and support the friends more and more, I help them, I adhere myself to them and I circulate the wisdom of Kabbalah to all of humanity as much as possible. It should help us so much because these are all activities that help me enter the quality of Bina.
19. S. (47:) Does faith above reason me not to listen to what my reason says but what I hear from my point in the heart, that it's from the choice in the environment?
R. Faith above reason means you take my reason, what I am telling you even if it contradicts your reason, which your mind and heart tell you and you work according to my reason, my opinion. When I tell you it's good to be connected to the 10 and specifically through the 10 you will get an entry into spirituality then you need to accept it as something more important and more correct than what you think. That you will advance alone and then every moment you can practice, practice according to this. Meaning to make your approach to the 10 be more and more for the sake of the 10, to connect to 10 to support that ten. To that extent you will reach even though you resist it you would object to it, all you care about is you. Exactly by this in the most practical way you performed activities that are above reason.
20. S. (49:54) Is it correct to think that faith above reason is a vessel or instrument with which with itself it's possible to pass on to the upper world but this desire comes from the Creator?
R. Correct.
21. S. (50:19) What should we add to faith above reason to come to the friends who are in different situations in the 10?
R. We have to try to maintain an atmosphere that will support mutual bestowal.
22. S. (50:58) That is we compliment or complete every state and by that give contentment to the Creator?
R. Correct.
23. S. (51:18) It seems as though the third state is a state where the person is already somehow related to spirituality and knows already how to work. how to give, how to receive, how to count, what is the first contact with faith above reason? We already get the mind, the understanding of how to work in this way?
R. The third state, look what he writes, he counts the $1,000 3 times and sees that $1 is missing but he says to the giver, I believe you that there's $1,000 here. Because over $1 he can forgive, he can seemingly compliment it himself. Even though the reason and intellect say there is less here he says that he believes. This is called true above reason. In other words, he is certain that it is missing. This is what he feels, this is according to his examination, according to all of his vessels in his mind and his heart he sees that is missing. So why does he say that it is not missing? because now he can say above what some above what deficiency does he position the giver as higher than himself. The view, our opinion of the host or the Creator is higher than the view of a person. Here we need to understand that this is how we need to relate to our lives every single moment. The Creator is good and does good. We receive from him only good, only good things. Therefore, we must not, at any moment in life, feel bad because by this we seemingly relate to him not according to what he is, but according to what our opinion says. This is why I must try to maintain myself in faith above reason, in accepting what I feel as good and doing good and not “they have eyes and don't see, they have ears and they don't hear” but on the contrary. Therefore, each time a person has to really be in shattering to what extent he accepts his life he receives his life and he is not satisfied with it yet how much he has to justify the Creator on top of everything he receives and feels from him. To believe that everything that comes to him first of all comes from the Creator and it is always good and doing good and he has to accept reality in this way. This is our work each day and each moment. One who does it is called righteous because he justifies the Creator's providence over the created beings.
S. It means that my current work is to try to justify the Creator and this brings me closer as much as possible to above reason?
R. Correct and according to this I approach him.
24. S. (55:14) I don't understand where to take the greatness of the Creator that it will cover over my reason?
R. From the group if the group can show you how it appreciates what the Creator does with it, with us. How it elevates him above its own reason, the group's reason. then you are certain to also feel that you're in the same boat with them. You will want to reinforce the boat and sail along with them.
S. In my reason in the group I see flaws, I see a few friends are sleeping, two that didn't come, so how can I take the greatness of the Creator from them?
R. Try to do what you can because in the end behind everything you see and feel stands the Creator. If you're getting angry with the friends then you are still in a way getting mad at the Creator why he is giving you these conditions. But you always have to accept these conditions as this is what the good who does good is giving me and this is what I must receive, this is the best thing I must receive in order to advance in the optimal way, every single moment.
25. S. (57:04) Can it impact this for the corporeal world?
R. We can afterwards see how we influence the corporeal or physical world for sure. We will also see how the world is nevertheless advancing through science, through external conditions of climates and other prime problems it's going through with the pandemic. Now there will be big problems, financial, economic problems all over the world. We will see how all those things with terrorism, how the Creator is still promoting the world towards searching for a point, a central gripping point. It will come.
26. S. (58:33) We get disturbances in the relations between the friends but also in this world so how can we determine our attitude to those disturbances that take on a corporeal force and apply faith above reason there?
R. This is what we learned, I have no answer, this is what we learn and accordingly we have to advance. We have to advance according to this, I think you are actually in the right scrutiny, I have nothing more to answer.
27. S. (59:39) What is the relation, that connection between an annulment faith above reason and Ibur entering impregnation?
R. It's the same, entry into faith above reason and Ibur are the same thing, it's just different words and this is how we advance. It all has to do with entering into spirituality.
28. S. (01:00:28) How does this inversion inside of us go from reason to faith above reason?
R. We bring the upper lights closer which influence us according to our disposition, our yearning, our deficiency and gradually, over many inner searches, each one within himself and externally, as much as we want to connect with the group to accept their view above our view, these lights change our perception. It's not something I do. I don't open something that already exists in me. I draw, through my efforts, now that I am learning and searching where bestowal above reception is, where faith above reason is, etc. We are drawing the upper lights through these efforts because we are creating a new deficiency. According to this, the lights come and illuminate on us from afar and prepare us to receive them, not from outside, from afar, but from within. That's how we advance.
S. Is this inversion a kind of miracle?
R. This inversion is certainly called a miracle; this is called the ‘exodus from Egypt’ because then we emerge from slavery to our ego and begin to feel what it means to exist in faith, in the force of Bina above the force of Malchut.
29. S. (01:02:41) We can understand Rabash’s corporeal example of counting the thousand dollars, but what do we count in spirituality? What is the act of counting?
R. We are not in spirituality so we don't have anything to count. We do everything over corporeality and according to our vessels we count and ascend. We're always in discernments of Malchut, even though we're rising to Bina. This is all we have to count. Our counting is coins, our currency is in Malchut.
30. S. (01:03:55) What is the difference between the intention of a scientist and a kabbalist when they both see the pandemic?
R. Are you asking about the pandemic or about the approach of the science of Kabbalah? t
S. About their intentions when they view this phenomenon.
R. The intention, the act, and the reason are the same in a scientist, what he counts. The judge has only what his eyes see. The kabbalist does the same thing as the scientist but goes above it. That's the difference. This is why there is science and the science of Kabbalah. A Kabbalist is closer to a scientist than to a religious person. A religious person doesn't count or check anything except what he is told without any connection to reason. A Kabbalist relates to his reason. He counts, he understands, he feels and nevertheless goes above it with the force of bestowal.
31. S. (01:05:23) Do I have to cancel my reason to operate faith above reason?
R. You're not canceling your view by going with faith above reason, you're actually checking everything. You make room for a new view, a new reason every time you go above your reason, above your opinion or your view. You grow wiser and wiser every time but, if like religious people, you don't check each time, you become more stupid. That's the difference. You are either progressing or regressing depending on reason. The more your reason grows and more you rise above it, you are in faith above reason. Faith below reason means you are declining every time. Think. That’s the big difference. Rabash writes that at this point there are three possibilities: faith above reason, faith below reason, or faith within reason. We get scrutinies from answering this.
32. S. (01:07:22) What can I do to accept my friend’s view above my view when my friend gives me a thousand dollars and I see the dollar is missing?
R. How would you behave when instead of $1 missing, $999 is missing? The whole ladder of degrees until the end of correction is basically being in a growing deficiency, where more and more is missing and I accept these things as they are not missing, but rather, I compliment them with my faith.
S. Is there some action I can do towards the friend in order to advance towards this state?
R. Of course there is some action, we talked about it. The action is simple: I accept this thing as if it is not missing but I know it is missing and I come to this with the power of faith.
33. S. (01:09:05) There is a great gap because on one hand the friend is great, the environment is telling me he's great and doing good, but on the other hand I gave him everything I had and he only gave me $1 back. What is the right request over this gap?
R. The correct request should be to the Creator. Ask Him to see that the friend gave you back everything, although you see that he doesn't want to give it back to you and he gave you only a part and he has no respect for you, etc. You accept these things as the great, best, complete relationship. This is how you work on yourself. You ask the Creator to give you strength for it. This is called receiving the powers of Bina and complimenting with them everything you're lacking in your Malchut. When you feel this rage and you really want to kill your friend, and all those other relationships you have between you, it is all in order for you to compliment it with the power of faith above reason. Do you understand how this works everywhere?
34. S. (01:11:05) What are the inner subtleties I search for over these contradictions?
R. It's relatively simple. You have to always see the whole world and all of reality, everything you are in, and certainly the group, the friends, and everyone, you have to see them as if it is paradise, complete and perfect. You have to compliment everything you see as incomplete with the power of faith. Let's talk about this. I see that everything depends on my perception, nothing needs to change. The world behaves as it always does and everyone is corrected and righteous. All who fault, which is me, fault with his own faults. This is why I see the world as so bad. I see that from dawn to dusk I have only one work, to bring me to the complete, perfect, illuminated, eternal world where the Creator is present. I want to discover and practice this. Until the end of correction, I don't reveal or discover well because I am like that. All who fault, fault in his own flaw. I see that we are making progress in our discernments.
35. S. (01:13:18) Is there a difference between following a friend’s view because he is important and going above the view of the other because I'm a failure?
R. There is a big difference. You walk out of your own deficiency or you walk out of your appreciation of the upper one. You advance to the Creator to the extent you position your friends above yourself and attach yourself to them. You can count the degrees and the discernments that you are rising in this way. It's all in front of you. We see what we have to do in our world every single moment.
36. S. (01:14:25) Is it correct to say that in spiritual work the missing dollars are disturbances in the connection and going above reason means to justify the friend and the Creator even though within reason see a lack of connection?
R. Correct. I have nothing more to say.
37. S. (01:14:49) Can you say that faith above reason changes the perception of reality? That according to the new perception of reality $1 is already $1,000?
R. I don't want to talk about that but you're right. There are discernments in ascents as we rise from degree to degree that become more precise, more accurate. You have a good approach, but let’s drop talking about $1 being equal to $1,000.
38. S. (01:15:42) What allows us to see the lacks that are revealed in faith above reason?
R. The deficiencies and the flaws that I see, show me how deficient I am of faith above reason and how much I still have to compliment these deficiencies with faith above reason. The Creator shows me how much I still need to add the force of Bina on top of what I see according to how much this world seems totally flawed and full of deficiencies to me. This is called filling it with faith above reason. Bina above Malchut.
39. S. (01:16:25) What is a good example of faith above reason to show friends in the ten?
R. Rabash writes that needs to show the whole ten how much he loves them, how great they are in his eyes, and how much he is in wholeness with them. This is the main thing.
S. He needs to show them the efforts he is making in this gap?
R. Yes, he has to give them an example and not despair. I have to show everyone that the group, the connection in the group and their help and how much I appreciate them, is the most important thing to me.
40. S. (01:18:12) How do we need to see reality and learn from the side of the Creator?
R. We need to show the Creator our effort, our tendency to see this world and the group in a whole manner. The Creator is whole with all of His actions and there is none else besides Him. He's the only one who is acting and that’s why I want to see all of the actions of the created beings in the best states, whole states, because I can be certain in this way, I'm not convicting my Creator.
S. I feel I won't have the thousand dollars to pay and I will reach the Creator with only $1 in my hand.
R. I'm coming with what I am coming with. I need to try to make the most correct calculation possible. You are coming here like a baby and there is nothing to do about it. You have done a good action. I don't think I am some strong, wise person, or an angel, but I am supposed to be like I am. I come to the Creator what I am capable of doing. Believe me, a baby is more respectable than a grown-up and a wise person. The lower a person feels himself the closer he is to the Creator. It is always this way.