Question

Hello, Rabbi,
I am a secular person with thoughts of repentance that have been growing stronger since 07.10, and the worlds of faith and Jewish law are unfamiliar to me. 

I listened to several of the Rabbi’s lectures about faith and its meaning, and from them I understood that for the Rabbi, the most basic foundation of faith is the epistemological issue, and that his preferred method of analysis is rational. From my superficial familiarity with the philosophical literature in this area, I agree with the Rabbi that belief in a Creator is rational. 
At the same time, as someone who is personally engaged with questions of repentance and faith, I wanted to ask whether the Rabbi does not think that the basis of faith is the stance from which we approach religion.
After all, even if I am faced with a convincing argument like the cosmological argument—if I am not in a position of openness toward the argument, a position of searching for the truth and a willingness to change as a result of a philosophical or observational process—then any argument whatsoever, however good or bad it may be, will be worthless to me. 

I know that the Rabbi does not like to deal with psychological and/or existentialist topics, but it is important to me to emphasize that the basis of the question is about the “basement level” on which the rational structure of faith is built. 
Thank you very much.