Kabbalah Site: Kabbalah Predicted Bird Flu

A Kabbalah for Women posting asserts that Kabbalists not only rpedicted the Holocaust but also the recent bird flu outbreak. ...

According to the blogger:

I never realized so many kids in Turkey liked playing with dead chickens .... I'm sure I've mentioned here about a thousand times already that nature will keep coming up with new things to make us wake up and ponder the meaning of our lives. Even if it means killing millions of us, and just leaving about a million people on the planet ... the Kabbalists tried to warn us before WWII and the Holocaust but we didn't listen.

Besides the rather regrettable swipe at Turkish kids--we're supposed to think that's funny or something? ironic?--the author's pretensions that Kabbalah predicted such specific events is somewhat disconcerting to me.

While I might agree that Kabbalah deals with the general fallenness of human beings, does it really think that it can read the mind of Mind? Not only that, but the ascription of divine purpose to chaotic events such as natural disasters aligns God's actions pretty closely to God's purpose. It seems like the Kabbalists agree with some things that the Rev. pat Robertson has said recently.

On the other hand, the blog does provide the following observation for edification:

The universe is pulling out all the stops now to bring us together with the latest bird flu issue. "Teamwork urged" says the Post, for combating this latest deadly threat to the human race. "We need to deal with this together. . . . If one country is inadequately prepared, it is a threat to every other country," said Bernard Vallat, head of the World Organization for Animal Health.