Today, more than ever, we see how elderly people are being increasingly abandoned. In many cases, their children do not care about them and do not even call. Children today are feeling less and less connection to their parents. Their…
Dr. Michael Laitman
To Change the World – Change Man
How Do Our Attitudes Toward Others Affect the Way They Behave Toward Us?
First, it is a strict law in nature that our attitude toward others determines their attitude toward us. It seems very strange, but if we try to make an effort, then we will gradually see that the world depends only…
Does Anything Create the Value Behind Diamonds and Gold Besides Rarity?
Diamonds and gold hold value only because people agreed to view them as valuable. They bring a sense of confidence, a feeling of possessing a treasure, but the treasure exists solely in our perception, not in reality. Look at a…
What Will Be With Us After Death
Today, we are reaching a point of a radical re-evaluation of values. What once seemed valuable, which we fought, lived, and died for, and which we tried to preserve and pass on to future generations, is losing its meaning and…
Is Love a Force of Nature?
Love is the most powerful force in nature. It creates, generates, gives rise to systems, and sustains life. But why do we call it the “force” of love? In our world, love means attraction. We feel drawn to something that…
What Does the Holocaust Teach Us?
Every year, Holocaust Remembrance Day compels us to pause and confront the unbearable pain etched into the Jewish people. Today, as memory fades into history, we must not only mourn but reflect deeply on the causes and lessons of that…
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What Is the Meaning of the Saying, “Anyone Who Feels Confident in This World Is a Stranger in Heaven. And Vice Versa”?
It means that our egoistic nature separates us from the true reality, which is love, bestowal, and connection. Our egoism, the desire to enjoy for personal benefit alone, gives us a false sense of confidence, “false” because it actually isolates…
Why Is It Said That “One Who Publicly Shames Another Has No Share in the World to Come”?
It is because by doing so the one doing the shaming breaks the most essential law of nature regarding positive human connection. When we make ourselves smaller than others, not wishing to rule over them but to serve them, then…
What Is the Meaning of King Solomon’s Words, “What Has Been Will Be. What Happened Will Happen. There Is Nothing New Under the Sun”?
It means that the human ego develops through cycles of correction, where the details shift, circumstances evolve, but the core remains unchanged. The final outcome of this developmental process is for egoism to transform into altruism, that we will rise…
What Does the Saying Mean That “To Fear Sin Is to Be Afraid of the Sin Itself, Not the Punishment”?
One should be afraid of an action called sin, not punishment for that action because otherwise you are afraid of being punished. Fear of punishment is egoistic fear, where we are afraid of ourselves being harmed. Spiritual fear, however, is…
The Spiritual Journey of Love – Friends, Humanity, Creation
Love of friends is the first true love I attain. It means I love each person in my small group with such intensity that my connection to them rises above anything I might think or feel toward anyone else in…
What Is the Meaning of the Saying, “If I Am Not for Myself, Who Is for Me? If I Am Only for Myself, What Am I? If Not Now, When?”
These are words that call a person to action. They point to our need to take responsibility for our correction, i.e., for changing our egoistic human nature to its altruistic opposite. No one else can perform that correction for us.…