We constantly adapt to various codes of behavior in order to avoid feeling ashamed. Beyond taking care of life’s essentials, namely that we have food, shelter, good hygiene and can take care of our families, everything else we do is…
Dr. Michael Laitman
To Change the World – Change Man
How Does God Communicate With You?
Thoughts about the meaning and purpose of our lives are the Creator’s way of inviting us into a dialog. They are like couriers knocking on our doors to notify us about a special delivery. We only need to open our…
How Can I Cope with the General Dissatisfaction I Feel about My Life?
Thousands of years of human progress, and what do we get? We can get any material thing we want, but remain dissatisfied. In any case, we play the game and chase transient pleasures. What else can we do? We look…
Is Suffering a Punishment from God?
Punishment from God is among the many theories people have come up with for why we suffer, i.e. that God punishes us for certain actions we have (or have not) done either in our current life, or in past lives.…
How Should I Know What Humanity Needs?
Humanity needs to know that there is a next level of complete unification to which nature advances us, and the fact that nature is connecting us against our will is the reason for all forms of suffering we endure. In…
What Are Things That Can Only Happen to Israelis?
It is common in Israel to disrespect people of status, such as state officials. The reason for this is that we—the people of Israel, the Jews—are a free people in our roots. We originated as a nation of members who…
Why Is Social Division in Israel Becoming More Extreme?
There are different kinds of divisions in every society and nation, but in the Israeli nation, the division is much stronger. This is because, as it is written, we are “a stiff-necked people.” It means that we are incredibly stubborn,…
On the Eve of Passover – No Sign of Unity
Passover is the most festive of all the Jewish holidays. It is a celebration of freedom, when the people of Israel became liberated from the yoke of slavery in Egypt. Back then, the Hebrews united around Moses, and despite internal…
Are Israelis United Enough?
In order to unite, we need to annul our egos toward each other. What are our egos? They are our self-aimed inclinations that make each of us consider ourselves the greatest, that there is no one like us. Such an…
When Will Human Population Exceed the Capacity of Planet Earth?
There is a popular narrative today about human overpopulation being a problem—that it increases global warming, climate change and disease, to name a few. However, in actuality, the more human population, the less suffering we each individually endure. Moreover, we…
What Makes People Right-Wing and Left-Wing?
𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘋𝘰 𝘗𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘞𝘩𝘰 𝘏𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘕𝘰 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘉𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘓𝘦𝘧𝘵 𝘰𝘳 𝘙𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵-𝘞𝘪𝘯𝘨? Nature consists of two forces: giving and receiving, plus and minus, positive and negative. We each also play host to these forces. They exist on all levels of…
The New Refuseniks
In the early 1970s, when I first asked for permission to immigrate to Israel, the Soviet authorities denied my request. In those days, I was not alone. Many soviet Jews who sought to leave the Soviet Union were refused and…