Dr. Michael Laitman To Change the World – Change Man

What is love?

Love is our most exalted connection with everything outside of us, which harmonizes us with nature and its laws. Love is a means to become like nature, which is a quality of love, bestowal and connection. It exists outside of…

Another Perspective on Whoopi Goldberg’s “The View” Comment

Earlier this week, actress and comedian Whoopi Goldberg, who co-hosts the show “The View” said on the show, “The Holocaust isn’t about race,” but about “man’s inhumanity to man.” The backlash soon followed and ABC, which produces the show, suspended…

How do societies change, and what are the major forces of change?

Our nature is to enjoy, to receive pleasure, and our desire to enjoy constantly grows. As a result of its development, it demands new and different fulfillment time and again. Likewise, the more the desire to enjoy grows, the more…

Love Means Friendship and Concessions

In old movies and in many Disney films, there is a classic format for a love story: A beautiful young princess is in trouble, usually taken captive by a villain, a brave knight comes to her rescue, she falls madly…

The World’s Misconception about Jews, and the Jews’ Misconception about Antisemitism

Not long ago, The Jerusalem Post published an op-ed by Conrad Myrland, CEO of a pro-Israel group in Norway. In the column, Myrland referenced a survey by the Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority, which stated that “32% of Norwegians…

Is pride evil?

Pride is a key expression of our egoistic nature, where we want to feel that we are above other people. Pride is given to us in order to realize the extent to which we are indeed egoistic, that we think…

Respect the Venom

Many toxic events have been happening in the world recently: Extreme weather events, intensifying political tensions, soaring inflation, revolutions and coups, not to mention new strains every other day. As countries fall apart and nations implode, relationships that were the…

Why are the Olympics used as a political stage?

We have no need for the Olympic Games anymore because they have become a place where we pit man against man and country against country. They are no longer games of connection, but competition has become like war. This is…

The Dilemma of Non-Jews Playing Jewish Characters

It is highly doubtful that Golda Meir could have imagined that forty years after her death Jews would create a storm in Hollywood regarding the actress who would play her character in the upcoming biopic “Golda.” Filling Golda’s shoes in…

How to Play the Game of Life

Why do children wake up with their eyes wide open and jump out of bed while we open them just wide enough to see the phone so we can set it to snooze? Why are young people energetic and ready…

Family Day – a Chance to Rethink the Meaning of Family

While other countries celebrate Mother’s Day and Father’s Day separately, Israel celebrates its annual Family Day, to honor the family unit and its centrality to Israeli life. Each year, Family Day in Israel falls on a different date, as it…

To Live, or Not to Live, That Is the Question

“To be, or not to be, that is the question,” mused Prince Hamlet in the so-called “nunnery scene” of William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. Every year, around the world, some 800,000 people answer this question negatively and take their own lives.…