We first need to understand the source of suffering in life, and then we can implement a method to end it. In order to understand the source of suffering, the wisdom of Kabbalah explains a key interaction between two fundamental…
Dr. Michael Laitman
To Change the World – Change Man
How do you understand the way that your spirituality has been part of your life?
People on the spiritual path feel that their daily lives, everything they experience, fits in with this path. For instance, if you work in an office for eight-to-ten hours a day, you understand that it is part of your spiritual…
How do people discover true love?
We first need to understand that we have no idea what true love is. Until we reach true love, we interpret love in all kinds of corporeal and egoistic ways, i.e., where we primarily benefit ourselves from whatever we picture…
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Is nationalism racism?
Nationalism and racism share the same root. They both stem from an event that we study in the wisdom of Kabbalah called “the shattering of the common system of Adam HaRishon,” where we broke off from feeling that we all belong to a…
What do you believe will be the next big innovations in humanity?
There will be no more big innovations in humanity. The era of great discoveries is behind us. The next major innovation will take place solely through self-transformation, i.e., by working on ourselves to transform our egoistic selves—where we want to…
What is gratitude?
One of my students asked me, as a kabbalist, what is gratitude according to the wisdom of Kabbalah? Kabbalah is a serious wisdom, and so when it discusses gratitude, it means spiritual gratitude. What, then, is spiritual gratitude? Spiritual gratitude…
What is morality?
Morality is a clear realization of the principle, “Love your friend as yourself,” i.e., a state of absolute positive connection above the ego, where we perceive and sense a completely different reality to the one we feel in our inborn…
Is there such a thing as a “law of love”?
Love is a law of nature. Everything is born and lives through love. However, hatred is necessary for love to exist because love needs to become established over another property, otherwise we would have no sense of it. There are…
Why do some people abuse children? Is there some psychological reason for this?
It is due to the human ego, which is the nature of every person and holds us back from relating to others as to ourselves. Some people find themselves harming others—whether children, the elderly, or others whom they perceive as…
Does multiculturalism work?
Multiculturalism is necessary at a certain period of human development, but when we further develop, it will drift away. We need to reach a state where we understand that we need to simply be human beings, as alike as possible,…
How do you experience time?
Time does not exist. It is like we live in a black hole where there is no time, and we each live out our own bubble. In that bubble, we feel our own time, and we imagine that there is…
What is evil?
Evil is a thought that is completely aimed at benefiting oneself alone. Such a thought also acts to the detriment of others because thinking how to benefit ourselves alone while living in an interdependent and interconnected society means that we…