One of my students recently asked me about a phenomenon related to the NGL app: that it lets its users express their opinions anonymously, and it became a place where people curse, threaten and express themselves in the most aggressive…
Dr. Michael Laitman
To Change the World – Change Man
When Will Leaders Mean What They Say?
When we look at all the promises that politicians have made, and broken, it makes us doubt the purpose of giving any weight to their statements in the first place. It would be difficult to find one statement, or…
Tagged with: Facebook, KabNET, LinkedIn Newsletter, Medium, The Times of Israel
Posted in Articles, News, Politics
Posted in Articles, News, Politics
Should Jews be considered a nation?
“Love your friend as yourself” makes Jews a nation. In other words, what makes Jews a nation is loving every Jew. Among Jews is where the unifying process in humanity begins, and then the whole of humanity will also unite.…
Calling Out Holocaust Deniers Will Not Prevent the Next One
In a recent 60 Minutes interview, Iran’s president, Ibrahim Raisi, said, “There are some signs that [the Holocaust] happened,” but the “historical events should be investigated by researchers and historians,” to verify that it actually happened. Israeli media and…
Why is there so much hate towards Israel?
The source of the hatred against Israel is that we, the people of Israel, reject and hate each other. And as much as we hate each other, the nations of the world hate us even more. If we related to…
Why can we not access all of our memories?
Everything we go through in life will have to surface from our memory storage at some point. Whether consciously or unconsciously, we will use our every life experience. We will then also understand that everything happened to us for a…
Does the brain solve problems while we sleep?
Our brain never stops running. It only completely shuts down when we die. While we sleep, we do not absorb external interfering impressions from our five senses, and so our brain organizes the various impressions it previously received according to…
Microdosing – There Are Better Ways to Boost Creativity
I have been told that there is a new trend—to take small amounts of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD), psilocybin-containing mushrooms, and other hallucinogenic substances to improve creativity and output at work. The scientific data surrounding this practice, called “microdosing,” is…
The Limits of Technological Development
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 The evident contrast between the actual reality and the life we could be living is becoming increasingly painful. It is painful because we could be living in paradise. Instead, we are making our lives hell…
Tagged with: Facebook, KabNET, LinkedIn Newsletter, Medium, The Times of Israel
Posted in Articles, Nature, News, Science
Posted in Articles, Nature, News, Science
The Age of Unhappiness
A recent article on the global analytics and advice firm Gallup revealed that unhappiness is rising around the world. According to the article, the situation “is concerning because unhappiness is now at a record high. …People feel more anger, sadness,…
Abraham’s Wisdom
“The greatest among the giants,” this is how the sages referred to Abraham. Why did they refer to him this way? What did Abraham discover that others did not? This post is about the biblical Abraham, who deciphered the code…
Tagged with: Facebook, LinkedIn Newsletter, The Times of Israel
Posted in Articles, Israel, Jewish, News
Posted in Articles, Israel, Jewish, News
The System of the Golden Question
My friend and student Semion asked me about something called “the system of the golden question.” He told me that in 1994, Jeff Bezos, founder and executive chairman of Amazon, had decided to leave the hedge fund where he…