Intelligence

Every learning, every spiritual elevation, must be built on the foundation of natural feeling and natural intelligence. And natural intelligence itself with all natural feelings in a good measure of their stance—must be in their beginning planted on the foundation of the holy of holies, which carries within itself the load of the holy and the load of the secular, the material and the form, in a form that is uplifted and ideal, in an elevated unity.

Orot Hakodesh, p. 64

The subjugation and stifling of intelligence—whatever the cause—represents the destruction of the world. In fact, the holier the cause, the more damaging that subjugation is. It is like a false prophecy in the name of God. Such a prophecy conveys evil and uncleanness, idolatry and abomination—like a corpse. And so, when any attempt is made to silence the mind—whether in the name of faith, piety, Torah learning or carrying out the commandments—it is a terrible lie, a toxic contamination.

At that point, people who are the holy ones of the Supernal Being, those who fear God in purity, must step forward to save the world, the people of Israel, the Torah, faith, and everything that is holy to God. They must save them from the hands of the destroyers, whoever they may be.

Orot Ha'emunah, pp. 67-68