One of my students asked me this very question. A Kabbalist educates himself by first determining one fundamental thing: that it is the Creator who is educating him. This is the biggest difficulty and the main work. From the very…
Dr. Michael Laitman
To Change the World – Change Man
Why Is Pregnancy So Complicated and Uncertain?
Although medicine is constantly advancing, from one year to the next, the difficulties in conceiving and maintaining a pregnancy only keep increasing. Why? How did it happen that such a natural process became something so complicated and uncertain, which requires…
Will the 2026 Iran Protests Likely Resalt in a Revolution?
What we are witnessing today in Iran is no isolated eruption, nor merely an economic protest. It is the expression of a long-accumulated inner tension between a people and a system that no longer corresponds to their inner development. Young…
Can We Truly Be Altruistic, Or Do We All Have Ulterior Motives?
Altruism is the quality of the soul, or in other words, the soul is a quality of love and bestowal. How can such a quality exist within us if our world, our nature, and everything we feel are built on…
What Thoughts Can I Trust?
A person cannot trust the feelings and desires that arise within an egoistic world and an egoistic body. There is no truth in our desires. All thoughts and feelings are fundamentally selfish by nature. Therefore, there is no point in…
What Are the Advantages of Speaking With Good Intentions?
Today, when we look at humanity, we see a lot of people shouting. On television, on talk shows, people sit a few feet apart and yell nonstop, as if volume could replace meaning. Shouting cannot lead to anything; people are…
What Is Spiritual Rest?
Kabbalists write that there is no rest in this world nor in the world to come. In other words, we need to constantly advance without cessation, and when we completely rise above our egoistic desire to enjoy for self-benefit alone…
Do Spiritual People Tend to Be Calmer?
Calmness and harmony, as they are usually understood, are actually not good states for a person advancing spiritually. Although the ultimate purpose of creation leads toward harmony, for a person who is already directed toward the higher goal, a state…
How Is Speed Explained in Spirituality?
In the spiritual world there is no such thing as constant speed, and certainly no rest. In our world, we are used to thinking in terms of rest and motion: something can stand still, something can move, something can move…
What Can We Learn from Being Pregnant and Why Is That?
In the past, a woman would feel when she was ovulating, whether she had become pregnant, and even which week of pregnancy she was in. Today, without instruments and medical tests, it is hard to tell, and many difficulties also…
If Emotions Were Contagious Like Viruses, What Kind of Society Would Evolve?
Why do contagious diseases exist in the first place? Why do bacteria become resistant to medicine? Will we ever find something that cures all such problems at their root? The integral approach to education, which views the human being, society,…
How Can Shifting from Living for Self-Benefit to Living for the Benefit of Others Open a New Perception of Reality?
We live in a state of reason, meaning inside our senses, intellect, and desire where our desire is composed of intellect and emotion, mind and heart. We live and feel reality in such qualities, and what we feel is called…