YESOD: KIDDUSH LEVANAH קִדּוּשׁ לְבָנָה

KIDDUSH LEVANAH קִדּוּשׁ לְבָנָה :

– PRAYER OF CONCESSION ON FIRST QUARTER MOON

-Shamati, Baal HaSulam, Chapter 22, page 77

CHAPTER 22. 22. TORAH LISHMA (FOR HER NAME)

I heard on February 6, 1941

Faith is called “doing,” because it is common conduct that
one who does some thing, there must first be a reason that
compels one to do within the reason. It is like the correlation
between the mind and the action.

However, when some thing is above reason, that the reason
does not let one do that thing, but to the contrary, then one
must say that there is no reason in this act, but only an act. This
is the meaning of, “If one performs one Mitzva, he is happy, for
he has sentenced himself, etc. to a scale of merit.” This is the
meaning of “Great is the study that leads to an act,” meaning an
act without reason, called “above reason.”

-Baal HaSulam, Shamati, page 77