Since my early childhood, my parents wanted me to become a musician. They sent me to music school where I learned to play the piano, and took me to the movies to watch films about great composers and musicians. I…
Dr. Michael Laitman
To Change the World – Change Man
The Alternative Network to “The Mapping Project”
The Mapping Project is an undertaking closely resembling what was done during the Nazi era when Jewish businesses were singled out and marked in preparation for the Kristallnacht pogroms in 1938. The project—a database recently launched for Massachusetts which includes…
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Posted in antisemitism, Articles, Jewish, News
Occupy Rothschild, Again
In 2011, the Israeli “chapter” of the Occupy movement began its activities with a huge rally in Tel Aviv, and went on to “occupy” Rothschild Boulevard for the next several months. The media was all for it, and so were…
A Good Word for the Teachers
When I was in junior high, I looked in awe at straight A students in the grades above me. They were about to finish high school and become teachers, too. They could have gone anywhere. They could have gotten scholarships…
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Posted in Articles, Family, Israel, News
He Who Starts a War – Loses
Speaking about the Russia-Ukraine war, NATO’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg recently told a German weekly newspaper, “We must prepare for the fact that it could take years.” As I have said several times, this war is not like any war…
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Posted in Articles, Global Economy, News, War
How do you resolve opinion differences?
We need to attribute our differences in opinion to the higher force that brings us together. It leads us into conflict with one another so that we feel a need for a correction, to bring ourselves to a happy middle.…
How can I learn to better understand social interactions?
Social interactions ultimately come to teach us that the entire world was created for the person. We encounter different people in different situations in order to learn how to position ourselves in an optimal manner, which means becoming conduits of…
Why do we find nature beautiful?
Nature has no need to change. The still, vegetative and animate levels of nature that we see surrounding us are in no need of correction. Only we at the human degree need to change ourselves from living according to our…
The Wealth of a Nation
The full name of Adam Smith’s celebrated composition, The Wealth of Nations, is An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. A few years ago, Israel found a wellspring that is bound to cause great wealth:…
Defiant Israeli Tourists Ignore Warnings
The Israeli character loves risks. It makes every daring experience like a movie full of action, filled with inexplicable pleasure, and provides a sting without which there is no feeling of life. It explains why despite the stern travel warnings…
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Posted in antisemitism, Articles, Israel, Jewish, News
How objective can perception be?
Objective means having no self, national or even global interest, but that we direct ourselves solely at the purpose of the higher nature. We should constantly calibrate ourselves to be objective, i.e. to be free of whatever we feel at…
Writing to Right Your Soul
Many studies show that writing is good for the soul. These studies do not speak of writing prose or novels, but of simple, intuitive writing where a person takes a pen and paper and writes whatever comes to mind for…