The culture of consumption is first and foremost in the human mind, that we do not care about what is going on as long as we get what we think is good right now. We need to understand that our…
Dr. Michael Laitman
To Change the World – Change Man
The Case for Envy
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Envy has a terrible reputation. It has been blamed for so many crimes and atrocities that we have learned to dread it. When it emerges within us, it is a burning feeling that is difficult to control and difficult to…
We Need a New World
A student wrote me saying that today, many people believe we need a new world. He asked, “If you had a chance to build the world from scratch, where would you start?” I answered him that I would begin with…
Why hasn’t COVID-19 ended yet?
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COVID-19 has not ended yet because we still have not responded properly to the virus. How were we supposed to respond? We were supposed to connect with each other, i.e. to come closer together and become a bit more humane…
Fighting for Independence
Two days from today, Israeli Jews will celebrate Israel’s Independence Day. On that day, in 1948, while still repelling the charge of six Arab armies and immediately following the departure of the forces of the British Mandate, the leadership of…
What causes mental illness?
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Egoistic human nature—the incomplete and broken self-centered desire—is the cause of all problems, including mental illness. It functions with a significant fault by trying to satiate itself at the expense of others. By doing so, it devours both itself and…
A Weekend of Worldwide Unity
This past weekend, my students from around the world convened online for a weekend of profound unity and love. Transcending distance, culture, faith, ethnicity, and gender, they gathered in sessions and workshops, meals and celebrations, and rejoiced in their shared…
Are Rivers in the Sky Flooding the Earth?
“When temperatures in Antarctica soared to 38 degrees Celsius above normal—around 70 Fahrenheit—in March, a teetering ice shelf the size of Los Angeles collapsed,” wrote CNN. “The heat rushed in through what’s known as an atmospheric river,” the story continued, “a…
What If We Rewind the Clock?
The University of Cambridge magazine announced that Cambridge researchers have found a way “to rewind the clock on human skin cells by 30 years.” The body of the story is slightly less promising, explaining that the researchers were able “to…
The Surprising Reason that American Jews Hide Their Identity
A recent American Jewish Committee (AJC) survey has discovered that while slightly more than half of American Jewish millennials feel that Israel is very or somewhat important to them, nearly a quarter said that antisemitism has caused them to hide…
Is any human really free?
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We have no free choice at our current level of existence. Decisions are made, either consciously or subconsciously, somewhere in our subconscious based on certain instincts, habits and social influences. And even if we accidentally choose something, it is also…
No Safe Place for Jews, Unless We Create It
As the State of Israel marked Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), thousands of Muslims gathered at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and chanted slogans calling for the massacre of Jews. It raises the harsh question of whether Israel can still…