We need to reach a very sharp and bitter realization that it is impossible to give up self-gratification, to love one’s neighbor, and to truly bestow to another. Human nature, which is an egoistic desire to enjoy for self-benefit at…
Dr. Michael Laitman
To Change the World – Change Man
How Can We Love Others?
Imagine that you relate to others as a loving parent relates to their children, whether strict or kind does not matter, but always with love. This is the attitude we must acquire toward all people. However, when someone reads this…
What Is Going On With All the Recent Antisemitism in the World?
Today the world is again approaching a state very similar to ancient Babylon, and that is why antisemitism is now rising from all directions at once. It is no local phenomenon and no mere political or social trend. It is…
What Is the Most Important Thing about Passover?
Passover is not about what happened once in history. It is about what is happening inside you right now. Therefore, the most important thing about Passover is “What has changed in me this Passover?” Within each of us there is…
How Does the Passover Holiday Commemorate the Exodus from Egypt?
What we call “Egypt” in relation to the Passover story is not a place on the map. It is a state within us. It is the rule of our ego, our constant desire to benefit ourselves at the expense of…
When and How Did the Passover Holiday Start?
Passover is the most significant inner state a person and humanity can go through. It symbolizes the beginning of true spiritual development, the exit from exile, from slavery to our ego, and the beginning of redemption, i.e., of living in…
Is Freedom? Is True Freedom Possible?
First, true freedom does not mean political independence or anything else to do with external conditions. Freedom, in the true spiritual sense, is the ability to rise above our egoistic nature and enter a new form of connection among each…
What Is the History of Passover?
When we speak about Passover, we are not speaking about a historical event, but about an inner process that every person must go through. The entire story of Egypt, Pharaoh, Moses, and the exodus is happening within us. There are…
What Does Passover Mean to You?
We have no more important or greater inner state than Passover. It marks an inner revolution that takes place within a person, where we receive the force of bestowal and connection, which we do not possess from the outset. We…
When You Are Asked a Question, What Does It Evoke in You?
When someone asks me a question, it evokes a very strong inner reaction in me. Sometimes I suddenly feel as if I begin to boil inside. At other times it pushes me toward a scientific explanation, a psychological one, or…
What Is the Significance of Gog and Magog in the Bible? Are They Meant to Represent Nations, or Are They Symbolic Figures?
Reality does not have to complete its development through some catastrophic explosion. The process described in the sources as the War of Gog and Magog does not necessarily have to unfold as a global disaster. It can take place within…
Are There People Who Will Never Find Purpose in Life?
When I was young, I often asked myself, “What comes next?” First you go to school, then to college, then work, family, and so on. But since I could not find a real answer to that question, I felt no…