Norway has just joined the group of European countries that implemented a 2019 European Union and UN Security Council resolution that establishes an obligation to label products originating in “Israeli settlements”—areas Israel gained control of in the West Bank and…
Humans are social beings; this is how nature created us. As such, the society we live in has a decisive influence on us. We already know about mirror neurons and other mechanisms of social influence, but there are other forms…
It comes from within us, from our nature, which is a desire to enjoy. There are six kinds of criteria to what we wish to enjoy. Three concern the body, which are food, sex and family, and three concern our…
No. However, they have a predisposition to universal unification in order to attain connection with the upper force. That is the reason for their leaving ancient Babylon. Their common genetic background exists in their descendants, which are souls, and the…
The recent barrage of mass shootings has emphasized the need for less tolerant gun laws and for other restrictive measures. While it is obvious that mentally unstable people should not be permitted to carry or own guns, it is also…
A fully-realized human being is one who develops and attains the degree called “human” through one’s efforts. There are four degrees in nature: still, vegetative, animate and human. The lives we are born and raised into are still not…
A survey by the Israel Center on Addiction has found that “One out of every seven Israelis suffers from some form of addiction.” Over the past five years since the last survey, some half a million people have joined the…
Envy is a great developmental force. It is bad only if it sets us on a destructive course. However, if envy makes us build and improve ourselves, then the envy is good. Envy is a characteristic quality of our egoistic…
We can get the most out of a relationship by first taking into account that we are parts of nature’s interconnected and interdependent system, and that we each have roles toward one another in this system. That is simply how…
In an interview for CBS News on March 8, 2009, during the financial crisis that became known as the Great Recession, then Wachovia Corp. economist Mark Vitner said that untying the world’s entangled economies is “like trying to unscramble scrambled eggs. It…
The rising inflation seems to have caught everyone off guard. The US inflation rate of 8.3% in April, while representing a slowdown compared to previous months, is still far too high for comfort. The situation is not much better in…
We all live within a nature that is round, closed, whole and complete, with endless degrees and interactions and interconnections between its parts. We are parts of this immense system and cannot digest its wholeness, greatness, perfection and eternity. However,…