After a terrorist attack during Israel’s Independence Day this year, where people were axed down and murdered by two terrorists, there was a general sense of fear throughout the country, and it prompted one of my students to ask me…
Dr. Michael Laitman
To Change the World – Change Man
What is a fully-realized human being?
A fully-realized human being is one who develops and attains the degree called “human” through one’s efforts. There are four degrees in nature: still, vegetative, animate and human. The lives we are born and raised into are still not…
What’s the point of fighting wars anyway? Why don’t we just negotiate things?
I very much hope that in the current Russia-Ukraine war, we will learn that there is no point in fighting anymore. The wars where we detach from the other side, and kill and bomb them with brute physical force, and…
Can American and Israeli Jews stay together?
A recent survey of US and Israeli Jewish millennials conducted by the American Jewish Committee shows that roughly a quarter of the respondents in the US have been forced to hide their Jewishness due to the anti-Israel climate, which also made roughly…
How do parents appreciate teachers?
As a part of an Israeli news program, three parents were assigned as teachers at a prestigious school for a day, and it led them to have a much greater appreciation of teachers afterward. I support such an experiment, i.e.…
How is envy or jealousy ever good?
Envy is a great developmental force. It is bad only if it sets us on a destructive course. However, if envy makes us build and improve ourselves, then the envy is good. Envy is a characteristic quality of our egoistic…
Were Jews ever really slaves?
The people of Israel were a nation of slaves who escaped slavery in Egypt. This is what the story of Exodus discusses. Being a slave means being enslaved to the human ego, our innate desires to enjoy at the expense…
How do you get the most out of a relationship?
We can get the most out of a relationship by first taking into account that we are parts of nature’s interconnected and interdependent system, and that we each have roles toward one another in this system. That is simply how…
How do you find the strength to forgive?
How can we find the strength to forgive? We can find the strength to forgive when we understand human nature, and that our nature compels us to be the way that we are. It is written about this, “Go to…
What is my role in my nature?
We all live within a nature that is round, closed, whole and complete, with endless degrees and interactions and interconnections between its parts. We are parts of this immense system and cannot digest its wholeness, greatness, perfection and eternity. However,…
Where will love take you? To what extent will it influence people?
If you start loving and caring about everyone and everything in nature—the still, vegetative, animate and human—according to the law of love, then you will see the immense influence it will have. First, you will receive great satisfaction through everyone…
What is a meaningful interaction?
A meaningful interaction is any interaction where we consider: Why is it happening? What is its source? What is the desired outcome? By relating as such to our interactions, we would start moving in a direction where we start thinking…