Question: How can Kabbalah be perceived as a science without experience and proof? A theory is fine, there are many theories, but how will this be perceived by a person?

Answer: It is clear that we present Kabbalah as a theory. And this theory is dual. First, it is a theory because in our feelings, in our proofs, there is no level where you could demonstrate some clear events that no one would be able to refute.

So, on one hand it is a theory because you construct your perception of what happens in our world based on a cause that is invisible to the eye, solely according to your own logic, according to the accumulations gained from your previous experiences. This is one theory.

And the second theory lies in the fact that even if you have built and attained it, you prove it through your own conviction, not with facts. You cannot reveal the Creator to everyone and say: “Here is who is responsible, here is who is doing all of this!” So it still remains at the level of logical, theoretical, abstract proofs.

And why is this theory dual, a theory within a theory? Because you will never be able to demonstrate it to everyone “on demand.” “Let’s do this, and everything will happen!” It’s like taking a staff, striking it against a rock, and water starts flowing. That won’t happen!

We need to be prepared for the fact that what is supposed to happen does not happen immediately, and even though we’ve taken this theory as a means, as a tool, to change our state in the world, it has never had proofs in nature.

That is, there has never been a case where we conducted a certain specific experiment and obtained certain positive results like with how a medicine is discovered for a disease where experiments are conducted, results are published to the whole world, the world agrees, and the developers get permission to distribute the medicine.

In our case, it is hard to say that it will happen this way because then all of humanity would progress not in a form leading to adhesion with the Creator, but in the opposite form.

Here we begin to understand why the Creator sends suffering, and why it is not in vain that it is written that “suffering softens the body.” This means people will be more prepared to accept our idea. Instead of study, instead of group work, suffering will give them the degree of purification necessary for them to agree with us. It will be agreement through force, agreement from pain, but they will have no choice.

Questions arise: Why must humanity go through blows? Why not reveal all this in nature? Because discoveries in nature, too, you make through suffering, through blows, through investing effort and resources.

In other words, everything we attain, we attain “in sorrow”; otherwise, you do not advance toward adhesion. It is impossible to advance toward adhesion other than against the will to receive.
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From the 1^st part from the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 5/14/2025, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Arvut (Mutual Guarantee)”

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