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Neurobiologist and psycholinguist Dr. Tatyana Chernigovskaya recently remarked that “the future is already here. It’s a different world—not the one we lived in just five years ago.” She insists that children today must be trained to memorize efficiently, filter and classify information, distinguish truth from falsehood, and live under constant stress and time pressure.
In a way, she is not wrong. Such is the world we have created. But that is exactly the problem.
Why should we accept this broken world as the standard that our children must adapt to? Why train them to survive in a dark jungle, instead of teaching them to build a garden? Must we raise them to live in tension, mistrust, and anxiety just because we have accepted that as the norm?
No. I say the opposite. We must prepare children for a bright, connected future, and not surrender them to the cold logic of an egoistic world. They should not merely cope with the chaos we have inherited, but be taught how to transform it.
This transformation is possible. The wisdom of Kabbalah explains how.
When we teach children how to rise above egoism and build the right kind of connection—mutual consideration, responsibility, and inner closeness—we awaken powerful forces within nature. Forces we barely understand today, but which work in our favor when we act in alignment with them.
Through connection, we discover a kind force embedded in nature, a force that corrects, balances, and brings joy. We would thus be wise to focus education on cultivating an environment where children feel warmth, safety, trust, confidence, and love, and where they see positive human connection as the source of strength, learning that they shape reality by uniting with others.
Otherwise, what do we raise? Emotionally shuttered, stressed, and suspicious people, who are ready for combat and loneliness, not for life. They might become skilled survivors, but they will be deprived of the joy of being human.
However, if we give them a vision of a good unified future, we activate their inner potential. They begin to feel hope, purpose, and love for others. They will not adapt to this world, but recreate it. This is because the world is not an external force that descends upon us. It is rather the sum total of our relationships. Therefore, if we change human relationships, we change everything.
Based on KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” with Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman. Written/edited by students of Kabbalist Dr. Michael Laitman.
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