We should first understand what is desire and what is bad about our desires. What is bad about our desires is that they control us and our intellect. Desire—or to be more precise, the desire to receive—is our entire essence,…
Dr. Michael Laitman
To Change the World – Change Man
Why Is Israel Hated So Much Despite All the Seeming Good They Bring to the World?
Israel exists in a kind of game, where no matter how much seeming good Israel brings to the world, with the many advances in science, technology, medicine and humanitarian aid, the world increasingly relates negatively to Israel. We indeed need…
How to Make “Love your neighbor as yourself’ a Reality in Today’s World
We can realize the principle of “love your neighbor as yourself” in today’s world through education. Education means filling our media, our schools, colleges, universities, and our cultures, i.e. literally everything that influences us, with examples and explanations of our…
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Is there a risk of famine today? Why or why not?
One of my students asked me about the possibility of global famine, citing a report where almost 90 percent of international food security and nutrition experts surveyed predicted that “without innovation and bold action, global hunger would continue to rise over the…
How Human Nature Works
Human nature is the desire to receive, also called “desire to enjoy,” and it functions by receiving what is beneficial to itself and rejecting what is harmful. Everything in our lives is built upon this calculation where we first try…
How You Create an Image of Other People Within
We are emotional cameras because we picture other people in our emotions, which are in our desire to receive. The desire to receive pleasure is our nature and it makes us perceive everyone and everything via how we can enjoy…
You Don’t See People for Who They Are
Undoubtedly, we see people not for who they are. Also, it is not just people, but anything we see, we seemingly bring it to life according to what we want to see in it. People in and of themselves do…
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What Is the Best Way to Relate to Other People?
We have to relate to everyone favorably, i.e. to give a good example to everyone as much as we can in order to break them with love, out of our love for them. What does “breaking other people with love”…
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Why is it so hard for people to listen to someone without interrupting them?
Why is it sometimes very hard to listen to others? Due to our egoism and pride, where we primarily consider our self-benefit over everything and everyone else, it is common for us to hold certain disagreements with others’ opinions. It…
Can you tell me more and more about the Hebrew language?
A little while after I had started studying with my Kabbalah teacher, Kabbalist Baruch Ashlag (Rabash), a letter reached us from a prisoner who lived under terrible conditions in a prison camp in Siberia. The letter was written in Hebrew, full of…
What is Israel’s side of the story?
Recently, at a border crossing in Huwara, a large town South of Nablus, a Palestinian terrorist was shot dead by an Israeli border police officer during a struggle after the terrorist tried to steal the officer’s weapon. The event was…
What do Israelis think of Israeli reporters being boycotted and ignored by Arab fans in the Qatar World Cup?
Recently at the Qatar World Cup, Israeli reporters experienced strong hostility due to their connection to Israel, which surprised them. For instance, there was a situation where a Qatari approached an Israeli reporter and told them, “I’d want to tell…