Dr. Michael Laitman To Change the World – Change Man

Understanding the Point in the Heart

One of the first things people learn about when they first come to study Kabbalah is a concept called “the point in the heart.” We are told that those who come to study Kabbalah, especially those who persist with it

How can I learn to give without expecting anything in return?

Giving to someone and helping them without expecting anything in return is indeed incredibly difficult, and even impossible. While doing whatever deed of giving or helping that you are doing, if you think that by doing so you insert a

We’ve Got Vaccines, When Will We Be Healed?

Since December 11, 2020, there have been FDA approved vaccines available for use. Since then, the virus has only spread further and broke record after record of new cases and deaths. Brazil, India, and even Sweden are seeing rising numbers

Where does the prohibition against mentioning the name of God in Judaism come from?

According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, “prohibition” means “impossible.” The inability to pronounce the name of God is because it is impossible to realize God in language. On the contrary, it can be realized only within the person’s desire for

What is the real essence (true self) of the person? How can we differentiate it with the personality? Can you explain more about essence? How do we see the essence of a person?

Nature divides into four levels: inanimate, vegetative, animate and human. We currently belong to the animate level, because like animals, we engage in maintaining our body and earthly life. Animals, however, instinctively provide for themselves. We, on the other hand,

What We Can ( or Can’t) Learn from Whales

Many years ago, when I was a university student at the Medical Academy in Leningrad (today’s St. Petersburg), there was a special project that the academy conducted in the Black Sea. It had to do with communicating with dolphins and

What are individual consciousness and collective consciousness, and how are they different from each other?

According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, defining individual consciousness and collective consciousness depends on transforming our inborn natural qualities into a new mode of perceiving reality. Those who transform their perception of reality into one that is above the inborn

How many dimensions exist?

We live in an egoistic dimension, the quality of reception, where we have self-aimed desires and needs that we constantly try to fulfill. Around us is a hidden dimension of an opposite quality: bestowal. While living in this quality of

Why Preserve Earth?

As the climate crisis escalates and extreme weather is growing increasingly frequent, experts are seriously pondering how close we are to the point of no return. CBS News reported on April 26 that according to Professor Timothy Lenton, a global

Force, Matte, Do They Really Exist?

The other day, I had an interesting conversation with physicist Dr. Meir Shimon. He said that while it’s been known for a long time that matter consists of particles, such as electrons, protons, and neutrons, until the development of quantum

What did God mean when he wrote in the Torah that he made man in his own image?

The Creator’s quality is called “light,” and it is a purely altruistic force. This light imprinted itself in the desire to receive, which is the quality of the creation, and it made an identical desire that wants to receive all

Who Comes to Study

People often ask me who is the most likely person to become a Kabbalah student, and why some people take interest in it, and some do not, or even reject it. Well, the first thing I mention are the known