At the 2006 census, its population was 891, in 150 families. Kabbalistic approaches to the sciences and humanities  The concepts and structures of Jewish Kabbalah have been used in the contemporary world to open comparative dialogue and cross-fertilization with modern secular disciplines in the Sciences and Humanities. This has been an uncommon phenomenon, since it requires wide internal understanding of both traditionalist Kabbalah and modern secular thought, and for social reasons Jewish modernity has seen isolation and entrenchment between the two. Skilled authorities in both traditions have included contemporary traditionalist Orthodox teachers of Kabbalah, as well as Neo-Kabbalistic and Academic scholars who read Kabbalah in a critical, universalist way. Traditional Kabbalistic views of the material world and the "lower wisdoms" deriving from it have been ambivalent, in comparison to the "higher wisdom" of Torah. While the physical world is a realm where impurity predominates and Divinity is hidden, the messianic aim sees the union of lower and higher wisdoms as a prerequisite for redemption and the absolute revelation of God. As generations progress to future redemption, the sparks of divinity in lower wisdoms become clarified as the sciences and humanities mature, deepen and ascend towards their eschatological union with the higher Divine wisdoms. Deriving from the physical world of plurality, the sciences and humanities represent partial perspectives on Reality, divorced from the unified Divine view of Kabbalah. They overcome rigid dogmas by discovering within themselves paradox, self-limitations, and shared perspectives. Concomitantly, the higher wisdom of Kabbalah progressively descends, becoming cumulatively more revealed, and is clarified by drawing from analogies developed by the lower wisdoms. The marriage between the two heals the pre-messianic division of "waters" (wisdoms) expressed in Genesis 1:7 "And God made the firmament, dividing the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament". Traditional separatist Haredi believers in Kabbalah view engagement with secular thought as dangerous for those not qualified, but redemptive for those sages who can clarify unity, especially with the Exact Sciences. Enriching dialogue between Kabbalah and secular wisdoms is possible with the rise of modern and postmodern deepening ideas in the Sciences and Humanities, though the Humanities related to historical criticism in Religious studies determine the main threat to traditionalist views of Revelation, and the development of modern Jewish denominations.