Dr. Michael Laitman To Change the World – Change Man

What Is the Difference between Material Joy and Spiritual Joy?

We feel joy from material fulfillments when we fulfill our own desires. We feel spiritual joy when we fulfill other people who were initially strangers, but who we then turn into our loved ones. We thus rejoice in their fulfillment.

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If I Rise Above My Own Desires and Fulfill the Desires of Others, Then How Do I Feel Those People?

You feel yourself and the others as one, that they are the closest and dearest people to you. The “self” that you previously considered, your personal “I,” disappears from your sensation. Its relevance drops significantly as it becomes more like

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Why Does Deja VU Happen? Why Do We Feel That Something Has Already Occurred?

When our brain starts comparing different phenomena, then it seems as if a certain event has already taken place. We start embedding one video fragment into another, one picture into another, and we thus encounter what we call “déjà vu.”

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The Loneliness Epidemic

This month, the U.S. Surgeon General published an advisory on loneliness titled “Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation.” According to the advisory, approximately half of U.S. adults experienced loneliness daily, even before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, which only

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What Did Einstein Really Do That Was So Great That Helped Humanity?

Einstein did nothing to benefit us. Moreover, he helped build the atom bomb, and told us that there are properties in our world that we cannot understand. It would have been better if he and the other nuclear physicists had

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Seventy-Five Years after the Declaration of Independence – Israel Rethinks Its Identity

This week, seventy-five years ago, in the midst of a war for its survival, David Ben-Gurion solemnly declared the establishment of the Jewish state: the State of Israel. But since that fateful day of May 14, 1948, Israeli society has

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What Does It Mean to Unite “As One Man with One Heart”?

“One heart” means that we are in a single desire to begin with. This desire shattered and organized us into billions of people who are separate and distant from one another. In other words, in our current state, we have

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What Makes You Criticize Others?

We criticize others as a result of our egoism, which makes us want to enjoy at the expense of others, and which thus makes us enjoy viewing others as smaller and lesser than ourselves. If we make no changes to

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What Is the Best Thing to Learn from a Mother?

When my mother passed away, which was when I was already over 70 years old, I felt that she had been carrying me in her arms my whole life, and she only let me go at that very moment of

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How Can We Protect the Environment?

Our every problem stems from our perception of ourselves as separate from nature, where we differentiate “me” from “everyone and everything outside of me.” Such a perception makes us regard our environment as subordinate to us. Even when we care

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Does Being Against the State of Israel Automatically Make You Antisemitic?

Jews bear the method to positively connect above society’s myriad divisions and conflicts, but they themselves are unaware of it. The more divided human society becomes, the more humanity needs this method of connection. There exists a subconscious feeling among

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Can Kabbalah Be Understood Without Knowing Hebrew?

It is possible to understand Kabbalah in any language. Moreover, it is desirable to study Kabbalah in one’s native language. However, at the same time, there are a number of Kabbalistic terms in Hebrew that one should learn in order

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