This week, seventy-five years ago, in the midst of a war for its survival, David Ben-Gurion solemnly declared the establishment of the Jewish state: the State of Israel. But since that fateful day of May 14, 1948, Israeli society has…
Dr. Michael Laitman
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Seventy-Five Years after the Declaration of Independence – Israel Rethinks Its Identity
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What Does It Mean to Unite “As One Man with One Heart”?
“One heart” means that we are in a single desire to begin with. This desire shattered and organized us into billions of people who are separate and distant from one another. In other words, in our current state, we have…
What Makes You Criticize Others?
We criticize others as a result of our egoism, which makes us want to enjoy at the expense of others, and which thus makes us enjoy viewing others as smaller and lesser than ourselves. If we make no changes to…
What Is the Best Thing to Learn from a Mother?
When my mother passed away, which was when I was already over 70 years old, I felt that she had been carrying me in her arms my whole life, and she only let me go at that very moment of…
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How Can We Protect the Environment?
Our every problem stems from our perception of ourselves as separate from nature, where we differentiate “me” from “everyone and everything outside of me.” Such a perception makes us regard our environment as subordinate to us. Even when we care…
Does Being Against the State of Israel Automatically Make You Antisemitic?
Jews bear the method to positively connect above society’s myriad divisions and conflicts, but they themselves are unaware of it. The more divided human society becomes, the more humanity needs this method of connection. There exists a subconscious feeling among…
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Can Kabbalah Be Understood Without Knowing Hebrew?
It is possible to understand Kabbalah in any language. Moreover, it is desirable to study Kabbalah in one’s native language. However, at the same time, there are a number of Kabbalistic terms in Hebrew that one should learn in order…
Do People Who Go Out to Space and Look at the Earth from Afar Undergo Any Kind of Special Change?
Indeed, people who go out to space and view the Earth from afar come back differently. By detaching from us even for a short period of time, they come back with a different opinion about how we should relate to…
Why Do We Have to Have Natural Disasters?
We receive major blows from nature ultimately in order to shake us out of the state where we live according to an egoistic paradigm—with exploitation, manipulation and hatred dwelling in our connections—to a state where we positively connect, as described…
What Do You Think About Tik Tok Challenges?
Challenges on TikTok and on social media platforms in general represent our primal animal nature and how we learn from others. It is natural for us to imitate others since we are social animals. In the end, imitating one another…
What Are Some Things We Can Do to Help Ease Our Anxiety About the Future?
To understand that it is just anxiety and not reality. We should look into what we have the ability to do today, understanding that any anxieties about the future are about what might happen later, and accordingly we should calm…
What Needs to Happen or Change for Humanity to Advance?
Human nature is a desire to enjoy for self-benefit. It is our starting point, and we are placed in a process of development that leads to a state where we will end up inverting our nature in the direction of…