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…
Dr. Michael Laitman
To Change the World – Change Man
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…
How can humans rise above their animal nature?
There are three key steps involved in humans rising above the animal nature: Acknowledge that “love your neighbor as yourself” is the comprehensive law of nature that we have to achieve, and nature will make us reach it one way…
How will society improve in the future?
Society will improve in the future by becoming the happiest and most perfect society ever, where positive connection, love, mutual responsibility and unity become the sole criteria for humanity to live in total harmony, peace and joy. We could imagine…
How important is education?
First of all, what is education? Education means any kind of environmental influence on us—any one of us, and any kind of influence, anything that we absorb. It could be natural phenomena, animals, a forest where we live, or the…
What is a human?
Human is the highest of four levels in nature, the still, vegetative, animate and human. In fact, there is no form of a human in nature itself, there is only the still, vegetative and animate, and the human level emerges…
What do you think is the true goal of education?
The true goal of education is to build an inner model that is nonexistent in us to being with, where the substance of this model is our desire. In this desire, we want to shape the image of what we…
To what do you attribute the recent upswing in violence attacks against Jewish people?
The core reason for hatred and attacks against Jews is that there is no mutual responsibility among the Jewish people. The foundation of the Jewish people is ideological, not biological: that we once united according to the tenet “love your…
Why do economic crises happen?
Economic crises happen in order to lead to the truth, that a well-oiled economy with a high standard of living for all is not the reason we are here. What is the reason for our existence if not for us…
Will Jews and Arabs ever live with peace and tranquility in Israel? It is a shame that Jerusalem, which means “city of peace,” has not experienced peace in the last 75 years.
Indeed, Jerusalem means the “city of peace” (“Ir Shalom”), and it is the center of the world’s spiritual force, but at the same time, Jerusalem is the furthest place from peace that I know. It is because we Jews do…
Can we live in a disease-free world?
It is possible to live in a disease-free world on condition that we take care of human connections. Human connections, i.e. the attitudes we hold toward each other, our relationships, are the higher source of all good and bad that…
What do you pray to?
We develop in our lives until we gradually start understanding that we are in a perfect and whole system that includes all people. It controls us in order to lead us to a certain state where we get to know…