Tzedakah [righteousness/charity] is as it is written, “And he believed in the Lord, and He regarded it for him as righteousness.” “Faith” means “charity for the poor,” and this work should be at all times, as one always needs to see that the basis of the work is revealed before him in the quality of “poor.”

At the same time, one must be a keeper of judgment. “Judgment” means specifically with the intellect, since “judgment” means everything we understand. The thing is that we must extend the intellect of the Torah and the flavor of the Mitzvot [commandments], for by this we build the Shechina [Divinity].

Through the mind of the Torah and Mitzvot that we extend, everything must be based on a calculation that is above reason. Precisely by taking her quality above reason, one is rewarded with the knowledge of Kedusha [holiness] in Torah and Mitzvot.

It follows that the intellect obligates him to walk on the basis of above reason, and the minute he fails in the foundation, when he wants to receive based on reason, too, even the knowledge he had in Torah and Mitzvot promptly departs from him. This sets in his heart the faith in the quality of fear, meaning fear of sin, for as soon as reason awakens on the basis, he immediately falls from his state in Torah and Mitzvot.

It follows that through these obstacles, he already knows how to keep himself from a foreign thought.

There is also the fear of heaven, which Baal HaSulam interpreted that sometimes there are people who are standing at a degree where they no longer have anything to fear, yet they maintain the faith not for fear of punishment, for they already see that there is nowhere to fall, and they keep the faith because of fear of heaven. That is, they see that such is the will of the upper one.

It follows that by engaging in other things by way of intellect and knowledge, by this they build the Shechina, which is called “faith.” That is, they see that it is worthwhile to keep the quality of faith, since all the profits are gained only when one sustains the foundation.

This is called “working in one place, gaining there the mind and the intellect, and giving her all the powers in a manner of Tzedakah.” In other words, with the vitality and intelligence he has received from things that he engaged in, with these forces he must serve the commandment of faith.

This is called “raising the Shechina [Divinity] from the dust,” when he sees the importance of faith, that precisely by going with this basis does he make all the gains. Naturally, this quality becomes important to him.