First, what does it mean to live by the laws of the Torah? It does not mean to mechanically perform certain actions or rituals. Everything that we are meant to receive from the Torah is intended solely to help us…
Dr. Michael Laitman
To Change the World – Change Man
Should We Strive for World Governance?
We, human beings, were actually created to govern the world. It seems paradoxical, i.e., that these lowly, egoistic creatures, were created in order to govern the world. But this is precisely so. A person is created to be the crown…
What Does God Intend for Us?
This cannot be explained at once. It is not something that can be handed to a person as ready knowledge. It becomes revealed only as a result of great inner work on oneself. Then we come to a state where…
What Is Spiritual Freedom, and How Does It Work? Why Do We Need Spiritual Freedom?
From childhood we are tied to this world by a thin “string,” and indeed, this world suppresses us from the very beginning. We grow into its habits, values, and fears, and we do not even think of escaping. Somewhere inside…
What Does It Mean That the Word Was God?
The world stands on the quality of goodness and love. That is the “word” of the Creator, the law of bestowal, the upper intention that sustains everything. All of this comes from the upper force, not from us. If the…
Is There Any Benefit from Suffering?
If we do not strive for connection with the force of love and bestowal that created and sustains us, and we simply want to live calmly and quietly on this planet, then naturally we do not want suffering, troubles, and…
Is It Important to Follow Physical Commandments for Spiritual Growth?
All the commandments or Mitzvot are nothing more than expressions of spiritual laws dressed in actions of our world. In and of themselves, the physical acts have no independent power. When a person performs them only externally, mechanically, without inner correction, they…
Can Drugs Be Spiritual?
No. Drugs only bring about a disconnection from reality. With such means it is impossible to break through the barrier that separates our corporeal world from the spiritual world, to rise above time, space, and motion into the spiritual dimension.…
Can You Explain How Society Functions as an Organism?
For a society to truly function as an organism, it needs to start feeling itself as a single whole. In such a state, a collective mind, sensation, needs, and a mutual perception of reality emerge. Society ceases to be a…
How Do You Try to Imagine Eternity?
From the upper force of love and bestowal, which is called “the Creator” in Kabbalah, we receive desires and fulfillments. We feel desires as hunger and suffering. On the contrary, we feel fulfillments or pleasures as attainments of perfection to…
What Is the Difference Between True Equality and Fake Equality?
Fake equality is the attempt to make everyone the same. This was the basic principle behind systems like the Soviet Union, i.e., to erase distinctions, level everyone, and ensure that no one stands out from another. This has nothing to…
Can a Fetus Feel What Their Mother Feels Inside the Womb During Pregnancy?
The integral approach to education views nature as one whole. Nature has complete control over its still, vegetative, and animate levels, and they thus instinctively maintain a system of mutuality and complementarity. For us people, nature has left room for…