Divorces are at an all-time high due to human egoism, our natural desire to enjoy at the expense of others, which has reached overblown proportions in our times. It increasingly makes us intolerable of one another. Many couples get married…
What Is the Meaning of Eating Matzah During Passover?
Matzah is unleavened bread that is made in a special way, with minimal water needed to make leaven. It is baked and eaten in remembrance of the Exodus from Egypt and symbolizes our swift inner transition in our attitude to each…
Why Does Passover Last Seven Days?
On the first day of Passover, we exit our egoistic intention for self-benefit alone, which Egypt represents, and we continue exiting this self-serving intention on each successive day until we reach a complete detachment from the control of egoism. We…
If God Really Loves Us, Why Does He Let People Suffer, Especially Innocent People?
I received a question from a lady, Olga, on my Facebook page, where she wrote the following: “Dear Dr. Laitman, I’ve been listening to you for a long time and I usually agree with you, but there’s one thing I…
The Dichotomy of Self: Understanding Our Egoistic Nature and Spiritual Potential
We are the source of joy and sorrow mine. We are a repository of filth, and pure spring. People, as in a mirror, the world is multifaceted. He is insignificant and he is infinitely great! – Omar Khayyam Indeed, we…
The Allegory of the Eagle That Grew Up Among Chickens
A man once found an eagle’s egg and placed it among chickens. The eaglet grew up together with the chicks. Like them, it clucked and scratched the ground, searched for worms, flapped its wings, and tried to fly. One day,…
AI Is Predicting People’s Deaths. Is This Something We Want?
Indeed, an AI-based program has been launched in Denmark that various scientists currently claim predicts life expectancy with 78 percent accuracy. The question is whether we need such mechanisms, i.e., does it help us in any way to know the date of…
What Does it Mean That God Separated the Light from the Darkness?
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And God divided between the light and the darkness.” This means that when the light appeared in our world, it became clear that the entire universe consists of two opposite…
What Does it Mean to Live in the Moment?
One of my students recently asked me about what it means to live in the moment based on an allegory of a dialog between a butterfly and a perennial plant. A one-day old butterfly landed on a perennial plant, and…
Israel’s Hardened Heart and Pharaonic Indifference in the Aftermath of the Iran Attack
After Iran’s attack on us in Israel with a swarm of missiles and drones, which miraculously led to next to no harm at all, a moment of fear was followed by a sigh of relief. Very quickly, everything went back…
How Do I Achieve Happiness?
We can only build or create happiness. There is relative happiness when we give way to someone dear to us, like our life’s partner, and vice versa, i.e., when we think about each other so that the other person will…
What Can We Learn from Black Holes Giving Birth to Stars?
Black holes are known to absorb everything within their gravitational field. Using the most powerful Hubble Telescope, astronomers discovered a black hole that became like a mother, giving birth to several stars. How it works is that the black hole…
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