The way to eliminate anti-Semitism in the United States is the same as how to solve anti-Semitism anywhere in the world: to raise awareness of the root cause of anti-Semitism in order to invert hatred into love. Kabbalistic sources explain…
Dr. Michael Laitman
To Change the World – Change Man
Can Jews be anti-Semites?
Not only can Jews be anti-Semites, they can be the biggest and most severe kind of anti-Semites. Why? It is because we Jews have a point that connects us to humanity’s corrected and unified state—“love your neighbor as yourself”—which we…
Why does Germany’s Angela Merkel visit Auschwitz for the first time amid rising anti-Semitism?
It is a political move on her part. Politicians make such moves not according to emotion, but according to what’s more worthwhile for them and their party. So I am sure that Angela Merkel and other people involved accordingly made…
Why is consumerism a bad thing?
Consumerism never fulfills us. On the contrary, we become emptier the more we run after materialistic pleasures, where each fulfillment we receive after each purchase soon after turns into emptiness. Our nature, the desire to enjoy—where we constantly seek to…
Why don’t Israelis living in Israel feel antisemitism?
We Jews are people with an augmented ego, which lessens our feeling of others, and increases our feeling of ourselves. Where does this augmented ego come from? It comes from us Jews having once experienced heightened states of unity, starting…
What’s wrong with the media?
Accelerated by the Internet, the media has become steroid-pumped with power, acquiring freedom, influence and control like never before. Anyone can promote anything they want. If you are paying, you can control the media, and by doing so, control public…
What reasons do people give for hating Jews?
There are all kinds of stated reasons for hating Jews, whether it be holding too much power in countries we’ve assimilated into, ruling the whole world, being greedy, envy of our disproportionate success in the world compared to other nations,…
Have you ever experienced anti-Semitism?
When I lived in Russia, it was a time when anti-Semitism was completely forbidden. Whoever would say a single word against Jews would be put into prison. Then, gradually, it started coming out little by little. I experienced a situation…
What is Halacha?
Halacha is how a person progresses from his current state to a state of similarity with the Creator, i.e. to a state with an intention to bestow, adhered to the Creator according to the force of bestowal that the person acquires. The…
Why should we respect elders?
The elderly represent the layer of society that holds a reservoir of wisdom and experience. We see that people with more developed desires, such as scientists, who seek knowledge about our lives and the world, develop more in their practice…
How does one become wholly Jewish?
Anyone can become a Jew, no matter whether one is French, Italian or any other nationality, because Jewishness is not via lineage. To become a Jew means to adopt a certain way of thinking, an attitude toward life and its…
Why does it seem like everyone in the world is protesting right now? Hong Kong, Lebanon, Chile, and many others are all in the news for serious, widespread, and often violent protests. Why now?
To start with, most of the world is heading into winter now, and there is always more illness, depression, and problems with living conditions and supplies in winter than in summer. It’s felt in every family and small business. Other…