The connection to the source of life, the force of love, bestowal, and connection, goes through Israel. Israel here is meant in the spiritual sense (“Israel” from the words, “Yashar-El” [straight to the upper force]), not as a geographic location…
Dr. Michael Laitman
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Why Is There Antisemitism in Countries Where There Are Not Even That Many Jews Living?
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Can a Marriage Survive Without Love?
Habit replaces happiness. If we continually give to our spouse, if we invest daily, then they become dear to us. A person is a small egoist whose nature is a self-serving desire for enjoyment. Love means receiving fulfillment. If there…
What Is Hell?
Hell is not a place of fire and brimstone, but an internal spiritual state we experience on our path to attain the purpose of our development, a state of complete balance with nature, which we call “adhesion with the Creator”…
What Is the Torah?
The Torah is everything that we discover when we go beyond this world, when we exit this world. After all of our searching and inquiry in this world, when we come to break through the shell of this world and…
Why Is It Said “Do Not Rejoice When Your Enemy Falls”?
It is said “Do not rejoice when your enemy falls” because your enemy is there to push you to correct yourself, to rise above your egoistic self-aimed desires and draw closer to balance with the integral laws of nature. Your…
What Is the Meaning of the Saying, “Love Those Who Rebuke and Hate Those Who Praise”?
It might sound like masochism, but it is not. The one who rebukes helps us by cutting at our ego, which lets the light in. “Light” here means the quality of love, bestowal, and connection dwelling in nature, or in…
Why Is It Said That “Evil Speech Kills Three: The Speaker, the Listener, and the One Spoken Of”?
It is because if we speak ill of someone, we speak against the very force that created and sustains us all. There is nothing but this force. So, by engaging in slander, we thus harm the system of connection, the…
What Role Does Financial Independence Play in Maintaining a Healthy Marriage?
Today, in the U.S., one in five Americans hides a bank account or credit card from their spouse. It raises the question as to whether this growing trend toward independence in relationships is positive or negative. Independence, when rooted correctly, is indeed…
Can One Person Really Change the World?
We constantly think about changing the world. But this is, in fact, the ultimate expression of our egoism, our inborn desire to enjoy for self-benefit alone. We think that if we replace media outlets, overthrow governments, or fire bosses, the…
What Does Real Independence Mean?
Today, the word “independence” is everywhere in reference to independent countries, republics, and the media. We hear it from all sides of conflicts, from the right and the left, from individuals and nations alike. Independence has become a universal ideal.…
Would You Forgive Someone Who Committed a Large-Scale Genocide But Wanted to Genuinely Change?
In Rwanda in 1994, nearly 800,000 people were brutally killed, mostly from the Tutsi minority, over the course of just one hundred days. Today, the same people who committed these horrific acts live among their victims. Journalist Philip Gourevitch described how Rwanda…
Is It Possible to Have a Truly Altruistic Act, or Are All Acts Motivated by Self-Interest Ultimately?
Oscar Wilde is attributed to having once said, “The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously—and have somebody find out.” I would underline, “somebody find out,” because our ego always seeks recognition. Is our world…