The view from above Imagine if you had a bird’s eye view, not of space, but of time. You could see the sequences that would lead to the result. Well, we do. For example, the Baal Shem Tov once wrote a letter to his brother-in-law, Reb Gershon Kutavier, living in Israel, mentioning something negative he did, and in heaven they said, he would be punished and due to my prayers writes the Baal Shem Tov, I mitigated the punishment to a three month blindness – Everything you said is true, wrote back his brother-in-law, except for the fact, that you sent the letter before the story happened! (Those days it took a few months to get a letter to Israel and the date was prior to the event.) Explained the Baal Shem Tov, in the spiritual worlds, time occurs before it does on earth (there are four spiritual worlds above ours, so in the world of Yetzirah (two above) things here, happened twenty, thirty years ago (explains the Baal Shem Tov; In fact, as we go further higher, till the seminal point of creation all things occur simultaneously, as algorithms, like a computer-program which then someone hits play and only in our world, does it play at the speed we see.) So in simple words, there were people who had access to the prime code – or more likely, God gave them windows – and they have told us everything – the first and most well-known, is, The Future Is Really Really Unbelievably Good! – It is called the messianic era! – In that era, the ground will give forth everything we need, from food, to diamonds, to clothing! – In that era (those who merit it) will live eternally! – In that era, as it states, the Tzaddikim (good people) will sit with crowns on their heads and bask in Divine revelation (obviously we don’t know it all, but it already sounds pretty good!) We currently are actually in the transitional period – if you were to tell my grandmother, living in the attic of synagogue for being a Orthodox Jew in Russia, that in her lifetime (she thank God is alive) Israel would become a nuclear superpower – Russia would become friendly to the Jews, people would abandon the material quest, searching for spirituality! – you would be describing Moshiach, yet it happened! – If you would tell her, food would be plentiful, people would be happy for one another’s successes (not the dog-eat-dog world she was born into) then Moshiach would Definitely be Here!! – We are TRANSITIONING! – But here is the key point – in the algorithm of the sequences, all of us a. are given independence – b. this independence is led by various temptations c. after we have regurgitated the bland taste (for the rule is “a constant pleasure loses its pleasure”) and we begin searching for meaning, somewhere d. God reveals Himself!