Answer by Rav Michael Laitman, PhD: I wouldn't say that science is in crisis, this is probably what a person not involved in science imagines – that science came to en end – no, science keeps developing. So many new things, opportunities emerge around us – this is all the result of science development.

Science is in crisis because OUR hopes that it will save the civilization crashed into pieces. I remember how as a child I was convinced that exploration of space, of other planets, development of new technologies, etc will make our world and a man happy. We praised science as a redeemer of humanity. Today everyone sees that it does not bring happiness. We start to criticize science.

Gradually it's becoming clear that this question, this appeal to science has nothing to do with it – what we are dealing here is not fulfillment of our life with all sorts of comfortable innovations – this question deals with the meaning of life. Science is not called to answer this question to begin with.

I also used to think this way and hoped to discover the secret of the meaning of life through science. I got disappointed in science, then realized that my demands for science are invalid, after which I started to search for the field of knowledge that would answer this question.

Because the question about the meaning of life covers our states preceding our birth (where are we from) and after our death (where do we go to, what's the meaning of passed years), which are not studied by the sciences of this world, basically, there is no crisis in science. What is in crisis – is our understanding that nothing in this world will give us an answer to the question about the meaning of life and there is no means and no way to forget and settle down this question.

Today, the second most spread illness in the world – depression. The biggest losses – come from drugs. Humanity must find an answer why it exists. Meaningless life brings forward aggression, terror (imaginable ideals and goals), and unpredictability.

Solution of this question – is revelation of the science about the Upper World – Kabbalah to the entire humanity. Kabbalah researches the Upper World, which is where we exist before we are born into this world and after we leave it. That's why Kabbalah answers the question about the meaning of our existence here, about our existence in the Upper Worlds, and about the entire Universe and its Creator.