Giving to someone and helping them without expecting anything in return is indeed incredibly difficult, and even impossible. While doing whatever deed of giving or helping that you are doing, if you think that by doing so you insert a…
Dr. Michael Laitman
To Change the World – Change Man
How do we improve spiritual health?
Spiritual health is a state where we positively connect among each other in order to draw closer to spirituality, i.e., to a state where we are united with a common intention to love and care for each other. It is…
What does Amalek mean in the Bible?
Amalek is a quality that is very close to us. It appears to be absolutely evil, a disturbance that needs to be destroyed, and not only destroyed, but it is written that even its memory should be erased. However, nothing…
What is a good solution to the worldwide drug addiction problem?
Behind every drug addict are unanswered questions about the meaning and purpose of life. We are all born, live and die against our will, and we thus all question the meaning and purpose of our lives. Drug addiction emerges as…
What life lesson did your first love teach you?
Our first love gives us a wonderful feeling, totally overwhelming us and making us feel alive. However, most of us don’t end up marrying our first love. It is as if we are tricked into receiving a divine taste, which…
What do you think about 150 mass shooting taking place so far in the United States?
Meaninglessness and purposelessness are the key problems. More and more people have no idea what they live for, and life with no meaning and purpose makes human life lose its importance and preciousness. Mass shooters thus feel human life as…
What is your definition of love?
According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, love is the will to satisfy other people’s desires. In order to truly satisfy other people’s desires, we need to understand them. Understanding the desires of others comes from sharing similar habits, qualities, thoughts…
Why is it important to develop a positive self-image?
Developing a solely positive self-image is actually detrimental to our development because it can blind us from what we need to change in ourselves. On the contrary, we need control and balance between a positive and negative self-image. For example,…
For the purpose of people’s unity, what are the proven methods throughout history?
The wisdom of Kabbalah is a time-tested method of unity, which was first implemented to unite people above their differences and disputes in the time of ancient Babylon, some 4,000 years ago. It acts on the premise that we people are by…
What is the counting of the Omer?
An Omer is a sheaf gathered from produce that is harvested and tied together. The spiritual meaning of “Omer” is a share (count, numbering) of levels that we attain, which are seven levels of successive connection. The connection becomes stronger…
What are some tips for boosting self esteem?
Self-esteem is the starting point from which we shape ourselves, our image, in relation to our goals, our needs, the world, society and ourselves. Therefore, shaping ourselves in relation to a goal that we envision to ourselves is key here,…
What does it mean to conquer yourself?
Conquering yourself means aiming to organize your egoistic drives in order to reach life’s final destination—balance with nature—and not caving into the ego’s demands. By doing so, we enter into a constant struggle with the ego, which always draws us…