What is the essential characteristic of the Messianic era? It is different than now in the sense that the perception, awareness and sensitivity to the existence of G-d is on a much higher level. Return to Israel and end of exile are secondary characteristics. What is the purpose of man in this world? Discuss why there can be no more free will in the Messianic era, and how such an era can still belong to the physical universe and not the World to Come. What are the essential principles that G-d uses as He guides the world from beginning to end? What determines those principles to exist? What are they accomplishing?