The role of the Jews in the human puzzle is to unite (“love your neighbor as yourself” [Leviticus 19:18]) above differences and divisions (“love will cover all crimes” [Proverbs 10:12]) in order to become a conduit for the positive unifying…
Dr. Michael Laitman
To Change the World – Change Man
How Do I Ward Off the Evil Eye?
What exactly is the evil eye? How can we arrange for ourselves a “good eye”? What is the common mistake with regard to positive thinking, and what is its precise meaning? Whether we like it or not, we live in…
What Do You Believe about the Change in the World Generally?
I do not believe in a positive change in the world by its own will. Humanity will not suddenly become kinder, wiser, or more considerate. What I do believe is that humanity will bring itself to such a dangerous and…
How Do Negative Thoughts Affect Our Health?
It is said that thought can influence the healing of the body. What is the power of thought? How does it work exactly? What can increase it? We have been evolving as a human species for generations, and our main…
What Role Does Social Connection and Community Involvement Play in Maintaining Good Mental and Emotional Health?
A person is a private system that needs balance, and its balance depends on the general system in which it lives. Today, when the world has become interconnected and interdependent, the general system is in fact global, because human beings…
Why Do So Many People Lack Motivation to Do Something That Will Make Them Better?
Why has it become commonplace in our world today for so many people to have no strength to get up in the morning, with no motivation to pursue goals, no joy of life, and no optimism for a good future?…
Why Do So Many People Seem to Be Living in This Constant State of Anxiety?
We are made of a desire to receive pleasure and delight, a desire to enjoy, which exists in various degrees. This desire develops qualitatively, becomes more sophisticated, and urges us to bring it new fulfillments. If we once wanted only…
Is It Okay to Live Only for Yourself?
Living only for yourself solves nothing. If each person lives only for themselves, then what? We will still die, and everyone will forget everyone. That is the nature of this world. One generation remembers, the next forgets, and after that…
Does Everything Happen for a Reason?
When we live with a “why,” a goal, a clear direction toward meaning, everything around us becomes part of its path. If we look to the future, we do not ignore what is happening around us. Instead, we see every…
Is Every Person Really Unique?
Indeed, every person as absolutely unique, with a role in creation that no one else can fulfill. This is how we must see ourselves and others. When we understand this, we realize that we have no right to take another…
Is the Tower of Babel a Literal or Symbolic Story?
The Tower of Babel provides an example of the human ego that grows so big that it shuts our ears, making us unable to understand one another. Just as it plays out in that story, such a state can once…
Is It Hard to Detach Yourself From Your Past Memories, Especially the Bad Ones? Why?
We need to learn how to relate to the past as something that no longer belongs to us. It is not a force that we must fight with, but it simply needs to be cut off, allowed to fade away…