Question: It’s spoken that Kabbalah is a science, and by using it we must solve the crisis. On the other hand, everything that happens comes only from the Creator, the good one and carrying only good things. This seems like something unscientific, irrational and unrealistic, but sounds like religious dogma. How could we combine together these two opposites?

When my computer breaks down, I call the experts, they come and begin to explain to me what was happening. I have no idea what they say to me, and I don’t care. I want to see a clear picture on the monitor but that picture is distorted. They keep telling me that we should change the hard drive, install a certain program, that the computer has a virus or worm … I don’t understand, I see only the external picture, and they talk about more internal matters. It’s good that they understand me, and according to my complaints change and improve something inside the machine. But, nevertheless, these are two different levels of a single phenomenon.

There was a news report about how many people lost their jobs in the world, and how many in Israel, that the world is facing problems and that these problems are only being aggravated and nobody sees the end. The process by which all this must go to the end, too, no one understands. It is impossible to calculate, there is no such formula. There are many economic formulas, but this formula we want doesn’t exist. It’s like a wave – a tsunami, which comes gradually, begins to wash away and destroys everything in its path. This is the external aspect of events. And on the inside, if you saw this in your computer, you would have called a technician and told him: "Fix it up."

We’re talking about two levels. You speak from the perspective of an external person who looks at your computer screen and says: "Here are job cuts, there are other problems … We must do something." Specialists come and say: "Yes, really. What should we do?"  They will tell you that it is necessary to change the hardware and software, i.e. upgrade your computer and then the picture will improve.

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