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Those are opposites. Faith Above Reason already implies that I don’t deny my reason, my intelligence. It all stays. Blind faith, which in Kabbalah we call Faith Below Reason, means canceling my reason and intellect. There exists in a person such a desire to approach Kabbalah in this way – that is, like a religion – because it’s easy. I can just check the authority of the source and say “I don’t need to understand. If you say so, I agree.” That’s Faith Below Reason, and there’s no value in this except as a stair to rise to something more exalted. Faith Above Reason is a Godly quality and not something you can just go ahead and do. We have to work toward this and need the help of the Reforming Light. My Reason includes my understanding, feeling, my whole mind – at least in relation to some subject, for example, that my friends are the greatest of the generation. No honest person can feel that way since the system we’re in is designed oppositely, for me to feel myself as the greatest (most important) in the world. So, how will I hold both these at once? One will be below and one will be above. Again, we have to learn how.
Good day and thank you for your answer Gianni..
I see this concept It’s Contradicting my actual reality, because to believe Instead of knowing, I have to cancel my  reason And that is blind faith, but To believe that I am knowing Something with out any Actual facts, that Is Faith above Reason?
You  see I think the difference between believing and knowing is I know what I know, like I’m sitting dictating to the App right now, And to believe is Wanting to know something I don’t know as  it is a fact. So to believe above Reason I need to experience my reality in a different way so I know it’s true and for that I need to change The way I perceive my reality,
No, and the problem here is that Faith Above Reason is not a resource that we have available to us. It’s just unimaginable. Like if we went back to a world of pre-multicellular organisms and tried to explain what it would be like for them to unite into a body and how opposite that experience would be to what they’re used to. We just need to make efforts in this direction and the Light will impart new qualities to us.
Mr. – you’re talking about the entire wisdom of Kabbalah when talking about Faith Above Reason. It’s not clear to us yet that all we are is this Reason, the Desire. It includes everything in our experience. Now I need to go Above it – without losing it, but it remains below, so I have two worlds: this world and the Upper World. Like we don’t feel that all of reality is me, my desire, and this I have to rise above, we also don’t feel how the whole wisdom of Kabbalah, in all it’s variety, talks about only this: how to go Above Reason.
So, of course that’s not amenable to a Q&A post. We have to expand our Kelim, then we’ll be able to include in us all these things at once. How? Through the Rav, the spiritual group and the authentic books.
Hi Gianni,
I have some questions re the upper force and its relation to the individual or the lower worlds.
1- Is it accurate to say that the upper force is non-discriminatory and that even those who don’t study Kabbalah but somehow attain equivalence of form, they are also able to be in sync with this force?
2- Is it also then accurate  to also say prayer, is less of begging but more of a conscious effort at attaining alignment with the upper force and no matter how much one begs, if they remain out of alignment, the upper force cannot influence one?
3- This is unrelated, out of curiosity, are there women instructors in KABU?
Thanks as always…
1. The ways of attaining the Upper Force don’t have to be called Kabbalah, but Kabbalah describes the laws of nature. If one keeps those laws, they reach Equivalence with the Upper Force. I’m not sure how I could just somehow reach this since these laws are opposite to human nature at every point.
2. Prayer is a state where I feel how I’m truly not in control and that I depend on the Upper Force’s help, so I turn, with this honest sensation, to the Upper Force, knowing if it doesn’t help me, I have no hope.
3. Yes, there is a course in KabU by our female instructor, Tal Mandelbaum.
I have asked before but can we get confirmation of dates for the up-coming retreats
April / May 2024 – Holland
September 2024 – NY/NY
Thanks. Lyndon S
where could I find a list of al the basic abbreviations used in the communication and lessons. Thanks in advance.
Boke
You can ask about them here, but no such list exists. Even Baal HaSulam doesn’t really provide that list. It’s gleaned from context. There aren’t so many abbreviations though.
You have 10 Sefirot: Keter, Hochma, Bina, Hesed, Gevurah, Tifferet, Netzah, Hod, Yesod, Malchut. And the abreviations come from these.
Then, sometimes Hesed, Gevurah, Tifferet, Netzah, Hod, Yesod are together called Zeir Anpin and Malchut is called Nukva, and together they’re called ZON.
A whole Partzuf is always divided in (at least) two parts: the vessels of bestowal (Galgalta ve Enaiim:GE) and the vessels of reception (Awzen, Hotem, Peh: AHP).
These are almost all the abbreviations in the wisdom of Kabbalah. One might think (Galgalta), AB, SAG, MA, BON are abbreviations but they are not. Those are the names of the Partzufim of the World of AK.
One more question please, if I got it right, the difference between Hochma and Malchut is that in Hochma there is no consciousness of the giver and in Malchut there is, so that is why in Malchut there is shame and restriction to receive only the amount of Light she can bestow? Thank you!
There’s more realization in Malchut than just that. But yes, in Malchut there is recognition of her relationship to the Giver that wasn’t clear in Phase 1. In Phase 1 the Giver was too much intertwined with her, like a candle in a flame that it’s as if, ‘hey, you’re a flame, I’m a flame.’ So there wasn’t room to see what I really am.
Hi Gianni,
Can you please help me understand the concept in Article 42 – What Should One Do If He Was Born With Bad Qualities?
“…This means that all the qualities that exist in a person that extend from the four qualities FWWD have nothing to do with the evil inclination…”
1. So, these 4 qualities have nothing to do with the desire to receive? Consequently, they do not need correction? What is their purpose then? Everything that exists has its purpose…
2. What are the qualities of FWWD when they are balanced or less in a person? More of them is petulant-lustful-arrogant-lazy… how does that serves/hinders a person?
Thank you in advance!
The point is that all one’s qualities are neutral. It doesn’t matter how bad or good they look. I have no good qualities, I have no bad qualities. Whatever doesn’t yet have a spiritual Screen is certainly bad. Whatever has a Screen is good.
Fun? No, look. Let’s give a corporeal example. Say, Zuckerberg was made to learn Greek, Latin, computer languages, etc. Is that fun for a teen? The fact that you gave him such surroundings and brainwashing to convince him that that’s the right thing to be doing… but “fun” would be something low level – video games, etc. But because of this effort over that which would have been “fun”, let’s say that now he’s the one having all the fun while those who took the low-level fun get to suffer in lowliness of all genres for the rest of their lives (even though, in truth, these are false values and no one enjoys – but just for the example). Our Will to Receive likes the lowest level, least effort things. Little pleasure, but close to no effort. Yes, it is willing to sacrifice grand achievements for the sake of not putting forth effort. Up to and including serious drugs. And I also don’t care that they’ll kill me in a few minutes (unless, like Zuckerberg, someone brainwashed me otherwise) – because that’s how the ego is built. It’s written that before one dies that angel of death comes with a drop of poison on the end of a spear, which one cannot resist, and it kills him. So, I’m built such that I’m a pleasure junkie, wanting pleasures to go into these different desires I was given. Now, the question is: were these, any, of my desires given to me for their fulfillment? Or, perhaps, I’m like some tribesman who found an abandoned (but operational) vehicle and instead of turning it into something I could chase my food with a game-changing advantage, instead, I’ve turned it into a place to sleep or something like that? Maybe, just maybe, all these desires in me have another, sublime purpose.
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