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…
Dr. Michael Laitman
To Change the World – Change Man
Is There Anything Wrong With Having an Empty Heart?
One of my students recently presented me a quote from a Sufi, Hazrat Inayat Khan, which spoke about the need to empty our heart in order to make a vessel suitable for spiritual abundance to enter: “The one who learns…
How Do I Establish and Run a Business Successfully in the Future?
Our evolution is leading us to a state where we will see positive integral human connection as the guiding principle for society’s success in general, and no less so in business. In a business, it means that all of its…
Where Is the Best Occupation for the Future?
In the future, the following occupations will be in high demand: Food and Clothing: These occupations will focus on meeting our basic needs without being praised or condemned. Everyone needs food to eat and clothes to wear. These basic necessities,…
4 Leadership Principles That People Can Learn from Wolves
One of my students recently prepared a list of rules that a pack of wolves follows in order to show how a group of animals instinctively follows rules that us humans could learn from. He read the rules to me…
Advice from a 12th Century Kabbalist on Marriage: Is it Still Relevant Today?
I received the following message from a lady who wished to remain anonymous. This is what she wrote: “My neighbor is studying Kabbalah with you. She sent me a quote yesterday. She knows my husband and I are having difficulties,…
What if Someone Can Read Your Mind?
When I was next to my teacher, the great Kabbalist Baruch Shalom HaLevi Ashlag (the RABASH), I felt that he could read my mind. I have been asked whether it was frightening or pressuring, and it was nothing of the…
Does Every Person Have a Spiritual Awakening?
“In every person, even in the secular, there is an unknown spark that demands unification with God. When it sometimes awakens, it awakens a passion to know God, or deny God, which is the same.” – Kabbalist Yehuda Ashlag (Baal…
What Is Spiritual Satisfaction?
Spiritual satisfaction is the satisfaction, fulfillment or pleasure of connection with the whole universe. We are made in such a way that we feel the perfection of nature’s wholeness in this state, and it is the loftiest fulfillment we can…
What Are Ways of Encouraging Cooperation in Society as Opposed to Competition?
First, as a society, we can learn from the relatively harmonious functioning of cells and organs in a human body. The various body parts, which hold varying levels of importance, cooperate in mutual complementarity for the whole body’s benefit. Cooperation…
What Is the Importance of Social Inequality?
Nature made everyone unequal. No one is equal to another, so at every moment, as external circumstances change, each person sees opportunities to rise or exploit the situation according to their egoistic desires, which prioritize self-benefit over everything else. The…
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…