Dr. Michael Laitman To Change the World – Change Man

Unity Is Israel’s Shield Against Existential Threats

Amid anxiety of a looming attack on Israel from multiple fronts following the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, my students asked me in relation to the verse from Jeremiah, “Out of the north the evil will break forth,” which Baal HaSulam

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Why Could Now Be a Turning Point in Our History?

We are at a turning point in our history because we have exhausted our egoistic paradigm and can no longer continue developing as we have until today. What is the “egoistic paradigm”? It is that we developed according to the

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What Is the Difference Between the Land of Israel and the State of Israel?

I once visited a place in Israel that housed the furniture and utensils of Kabbalist Yehuda Ashlag (Baal HaSulam). I noticed how “Medinat Israel” (Hebrew for “The State of Israel”) was inscribed on his challah knife’s handle. It is a

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Why Has There Always Been a Constant Hatred of Jews?

Many people have hated and continue to hate Jews because they possess a certain tool that can determine whether or not they aim themselves at the single force of love, bestowal and connection that guides reality. Why is the Jews’

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What Do You Think about Great Jews Throughout History Who Were Not Originally Jewish?

Indeed, many great Jews were not originally Jewish. For example, Rabbi Akiva was born a non-Jew, but became the Jewish people’s leading teacher in his time. King David, renowned as Israel’s greatest king, had a non-Jewish great grandmother, Ruth. Also,

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What Is the Definition of a Correction in Kabbalah?

In Kabbalah, a correction is a change of the intention—from an intention to receive to an intention to give—upon the desire to enjoy, which is our nature. We undergo such a correction, the setting up of the intention to give or

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Baal HaSulam’s Warning to the Jews: As Relevant Today as in 1933

Kabbalist Yehuda Ashlag, nicknamed “Baal HaSulam” (the “Master of the Ladder”) for his monumental multi-volume “Sulam” (“Ladder”) commentary on The Book of Zohar, is widely renowned as the greatest Kabbalist of the 20th century. Other than The Zohar commentary, he invested immensely in

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The Needed Change in Human Relations

We are standing before a great change in the world, and by “world” I mean human relations. Nothing matters more than the connections between people, and they need to change. We cannot change stones or trees or animals or the

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How Can You Get Rid of Your Ego Practically?

In order to first have a desire to get rid of our ego, which by definition is an intention for self-benefit at the expense of others and nature, we need to understand the evil it brings us, that it is

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What Do You Do if You Hate the World So Deeply?

I received a similar question on my Facebook page from Dina: “What should I do with my hatred for this world? Many people feel this way today. People hate this world! They hate it! And many even ask: ‘Why was

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Was All of Humanity Ever In Spiritual Attainment?

No. Abraham’s group, which had left Babylon, was in spiritual attainment for a brief period. When they exited Egypt, they rose to a new level, and then during the First Temple’s construction, they rose even higher in spiritual attainment. When

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The Allegory of the Hotel Owners Who Tried Stealing from a Wealthy Merchant

There is an allegory about a husband and a wife who ran a hotel for ordinary folk, and who tried to steal from a wealthy merchant who took a room at their hotel for the night. The wife saw the

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