Understanding the Torah requires study of the wisdom of Kabbalah, which is open to everybody regardless of religion, nationality, gender or age. At the outset, the Torah appears to be a historical tale, but Kabbalah reveals it as a method of…
Dr. Michael Laitman
To Change the World – Change Man
How can we overcome fear and anxiety?
We can overcome fear and anxiety by entering into an environment of people who aim at achieving positive connection, together learning and implementing a method of connection that attracts nature’s positive force into such a connection. We should also understand…
What do you think about the UN Sustainable Development Goals?
I think that it is a childish initiative, but let them try. It is childish because it fails to account for the root cause of everything that makes life on this planet unsustainable, and how to correct the problems and…
Why do so many people identify with the loneliest whale?
The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52 is a documentary that, over thirty years, tracks a whale that produces high-pitched sounds on a frequency unique solely to that whale, to which no other whales respond. They thus call this whale “the…
How might being kind and showing you care about someone, including a stranger, make a big difference in the person’s life?
One of my students told me a story about a young man who was hospitalized on the verge of death. He wrote a “Farewell to the World” post on Facebook, which was met with hundreds of warm and caring comments…
What do you think of U.S. officials who said Monday the bullet that killed veteran Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh was likely fired from an Israeli position?
I heard about CNN reporting that IDF soldiers shot the Al Jazeera reporter, Shireen Abu Akleh, as a targeted attack, which is uncanny because firing at civilians is the opposite of what the IDF teaches their soldiers from their very first training…
What is your take on gender equality?
Nature made a specific distinction between genders, placing us into an unequal state. Male and female parts in nature are necessary for birth and procreation. If we try to impose an artificial removal of the difference between genders, destroying their…
What is the meaning of the image of God?
Our attitudes to certain people and things lead to various images and behaviors. We depict the image of the Creator in His attitude toward the created beings. We can do so in relation to the inanimate, vegetative and animate levels…
Where do dreams come from?
Dreams are impressions of the material world or other various wandering currents in our subconscious that we see in our mind. The wandering streams or currents of information, and the cell restructuring of the brain that takes place, bring about…
What is the message behind Noah’s ark?
It is written in the story of Noah’s Ark that all lived peacefully in the ark. It is because the ark represents the spiritual quality of Bina, i.e. a quality of pure bestowal, one that envelops and sustains everything within itself.…
What is freedom?
Freedom is a state where we rise above our restrictive limits and give everything we can for society’s benefit. Doing so gives us the opportunity to feel absolutely free from every restraint. How does it work that we become free…
What are the Third Commandment prohibitions?
According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, prohibition equates to impossibility. Accordingly, the third commandment—”You shall not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain”—means that we cannot reproduce the name of the Creator because doing so requires making…