Yes, we have fate. That is, we live in a predetermined reality. We each have different fates that move us through life’s various states at differing rates. For instance, some people live basic lives, doing nothing much more than working…
Dr. Michael Laitman
To Change the World – Change Man
Jewish
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Holocaust Remembrance Day is a time to reflect on the past, and how modern-day circumstances prove that the ominous specter of antisemitism didn’t simply die with World War II. Indeed, Holocaust survivor Manfred Goldberg, recently stated that social media had…
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January 27 is the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In recent years, there has been a sharp resurgence of antisemitism, which seems to be accelerating. The Jewish Agency’s Fighting Antisemitism page states, “With violent instances of antisemitism on the rise across…
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The tumultuous protests against the planned reforms to Israel’s judicial system seem to be tearing Israeli society apart. Prominent newspapers around the world have not only reported the plan to reform Israel’s justice system, but have actually taken sides. Thomas…
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We all live in our own bubbles, and it is not necessarily a bad thing. Our bubbles are characterized by us feeling no desire for anything beyond them. For instance, in my personal physical life, I barely leave my room.…
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A student told me about a forty-four-year-old woman who had decided when she was younger never to have children. But now that she is older, she wonders if she made the right choice because even though she has friends and…
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The construction of the Tower of Babel represents humanity’s first level of egoistic development that took place around 4,000 years ago. The story of the Tower of Babel describes people who, out of increased egoism, aspired to reach the governing…
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We should first understand what is desire and what is bad about our desires. What is bad about our desires is that they control us and our intellect. Desire—or to be more precise, the desire to receive—is our entire essence,…
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Israel exists in a kind of game, where no matter how much seeming good Israel brings to the world, with the many advances in science, technology, medicine and humanitarian aid, the world increasingly relates negatively to Israel. We indeed need…
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Human nature is the desire to receive, also called “desire to enjoy,” and it functions by receiving what is beneficial to itself and rejecting what is harmful. Everything in our lives is built upon this calculation where we first try…
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As the new Israeli government was taking shape, an open letter titled A Call to Action began to circulate among American Jewish communities. The signatories, some of whom are prominent figures in American Jewry, pledged “to not invite any…
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A little while after I had started studying with my Kabbalah teacher, Kabbalist Baruch Ashlag (Rabash), a letter reached us from a prisoner who lived under terrible conditions in a prison camp in Siberia. The letter was written in Hebrew, full of…
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