attention to the past, present, and future of human history has an outstanding place in the holy texts of the abrahamic religions. the books existing in the old testament begin the human story, with a relatively history-like structure, from the beginning of creation of the world and man and continues until getting to the emergence of the people of banī isrā’īl. from this point on, this history ...

According to the life mission theory, the essence of man is his purpose of life, which comes into existence at conception. This first purpose is always positive and in support of life. This is not in accordance with the everyday experience that man also engages in evil enterprises born out of destructive intentions. This paper presents a theory about the evil side of man, called the "anti-self"...

The only hope is education, yet the limitations placed on this solution are severe. The author feels that the rightful function of education is to fit the young "to participate in their culture and to preserve it"; social change must come from the adult community, not the schools. In addition, each culture is "to have considerable respect for the past and its achievements, to rely on scrutiny a...

Although prediction schemes which are named \universal" are now abundant, very little has been addressed as to the de nition of universal prediction. This paper addresses for -nary ( 2) sequences the criteria of successful universal prediction and the prediction schemes which achieve the goals. We propose the following criteria: for any probability measures in a given measure class, the error p...