The judicial reform that Israel’s new administration is advancing has stirred turmoil throughout Israeli society. From every sector and faction of society, people are condemning the reform or rooting for it. Those condemning it warn that the reform will obliterate…
Yes, there is. In the Middle Ages, people felt a much deeper dependence on the Jews than people today. Today, we have medicine, chemistry, technology and other means by which we can use nature to our benefit. Humanity has accumulated…
Abraham, who researched the laws of nature, saw that the growing human ego of his time was a sign of a maturing society. He understood that nature grows the egoistic desire in people in order for people to positively connect…
A Jew is one who develops the quality of bestowal and love of others, as is written in the Torah, i.e. to reach a state of “love your neighbor as yourself” and “love will cover all crimes.” The positive force…
In an attempt to counter rapidly growing antisemitism in the country, the French government updated its plan to combat antisemitism to include training teachers and requiring students to visit sites of antisemitic or racist incidents. The problem of rising antisemitism…
As the scale of devastation from the earthquake that struck southern Turkey and Syria becomes clearer and more horrifying by the minute, initial takeaways are already surfacing. But before I talk about what I believe needs to be done, I…
My heart is with the citizens of Turkey during the heavy disaster that befell them with the powerful earthquake. My students from Turkey update me on every development, and together we are closely following my dear student whose building…
Contrary to a lot of opinions, we do not have to change the economic, social and political structures, and other various superstructures in society. We have to change ourselves. And we can do so by means of education. Changing ourselves…
Heroes are those who, while immersed in their egoistic self-centered nature, build another person out of themselves, one that is in equal to the altruistic force of nature. Imagine that you are in a closed dark space, like a worm…
Light is the force in nature that influences, governs, permeates and animates everything. All other forces that we observe in nature are derived from it. We feel the light as a source of goodness, a law of nature, a powerful…
We all want to live in a world filled with love, but at the same time, think that it is impossible. But what if we could live in a loving world? We currently live in a hostile world. We find…
We can observe time when we look at our watches, and we can sense time when we reflect on our lives and realize how quickly time passes., We feel it when we contemplate the events in our lives and consider…