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,…
Dr. Michael Laitman
To Change the World – Change Man
The Allegory of the Eagle That Grew Up Among Chickens
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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…
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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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Why Do Highly Intelligent People Have a Harder Time Understanding Others in an Argument?
One of my students recently asked me in relation to a statement by psychologist Jonathan Haidt, that the higher the level of a person’s intelligence, the greater their ability to argue for their beliefs, but it does not help them…
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The Duty of Care: An Insight into the Sacrifices Made for Loved Ones
An elderly man visited a nurse to remove stitches after surgery. Everyone was busy. He asked, demanded and begged to be taken care of quickly, saying “I need to get to the hospital in time to feed my sick wife.…
Is There a Sense of Unity Among Israelis?
A student of mine read me the following message with a question that he received from his friend who is serving in Gaza during the current Israel-Hamas war as a paratrooper. “We have become different, there has been a shift…
What Was Man Created For?
Man was created in order to achieve an awakening, understanding and a feeling that he is under the governance of the laws of nature in his development. These laws govern our lives and the entire universe, everything that we call…
What Is the Difference Between Slander and Criticism?
Slander is the lack of a correct justification for something that was said. In such a case, it is necessary to scrutinize the matter by raising it to a public judgment. In general, that is the difference between slander and…