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In the early 1970s, when I first asked for permission to immigrate to Israel, the Soviet authorities denied my request. In those days, I was not...
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to pause the judicial reform in order to give time for negotiation with its opposers will achieve...
According to the wisdom of Kabbalah, the state of slavery in Egypt means that we are under the complete control of the desire to enjoy for...
Even though there is a joint statement between five of the world’s most powerful nations — the United States, Russia, China, the United Kingdom...
Indeed, we live within a power hierarchy where only a few dozen families control the world and do whatever they wish for themselves. It seems as if...
A very common regret people have before death is in relation to what they did not do in their lives, for instance, the regret of working too much and...
The story starts with Ahasuerus, King of Shushan, enjoying a royal feast, and then his wife, Queen Vashti, disobeyed one of his commands, so he...
If we viewed human society a single live organism, then what would we see? We would see that, in its current state of development, its immune system...
The story of Purim describes the near-genocide of the Jewish people. Haman recognized the Jews’ division as an opportunity to eradicate them....
The State of Israel’s relationship with the United Nations has often been fraught with tensions and criticism. This was underscored by recent...
While the world is grappling with the magnitude of the disaster that struck Turkey and Syria, the war in Ukraine is raging on without any sign of...
Earlier this week, Israeli president, Isaac Herzog, gave a heartfelt speech where he called on both sides of the political rift surrounding the...
Unconditional love can exist between two partners if they work on it and attain it. Love is based on mutual concessions, yielding to one another, and...
Yes, there is. In the Middle Ages, people felt a much deeper dependence on the Jews than people today. Today, we have medicine, chemistry,...
Abraham, who researched the laws of nature, saw that the growing human ego of his time was a sign of a maturing society. He understood that nature...
The judicial reform that Israel’s new administration is advancing has stirred turmoil throughout Israeli society. From every sector and faction of...
As the scale of devastation from the earthquake that struck southern Turkey and Syria becomes clearer and more horrifying by the minute, initial...
In an attempt to counter rapidly growing antisemitism in the country, the French government updated its plan to combat antisemitism to include...
Heroes are those who, while immersed in their egoistic self-centered nature, build another person out of themselves, one that is in equal to the...
We all want to live in a world filled with love, but at the same time, think that it is impossible. But what if we could live in a loving world? We...
We can observe time when we look at our watches, and we can sense time when we reflect on our lives and realize how quickly time passes., We feel it...
As the climate heads into greater extremes globally, how can we best deal with future climate crises? The short answer is that we cannot deal with...
There are numerous examples of how music and songs are used in education in order to let students absorb the material more easily. Moreover, by...
Holocaust Remembrance Day is a time to reflect on the past, and how modern-day circumstances prove that the ominous specter of antisemitism didn’t...
January 27 is the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In recent years, there has been a sharp resurgence of antisemitism, which seems to be...
The tumultuous protests against the planned reforms to Israel’s judicial system seem to be tearing Israeli society apart. Prominent newspapers...
A student told me about a forty-four-year-old woman who had decided when she was younger never to have children. But now that she is older, she...
It has been more than two months since the general election in Israel took place. Although the results showed a clear winner, and no one disputes the...
Indeed, we are living in times of a social trust crisis, and it could lead to worse states where our connections would freeze and we would be unable...
The construction of the Tower of Babel represents humanity’s first level of egoistic development that took place around 4,000 years ago. The story...
One of my students asked me about the possibility of global famine, citing a report where almost 90 percent of international food security and...
“Attendance Is Mandatory” may sound like the beginning of a post about school attendance, but it is not; it is a post about compulsory...
A study published in the journal Science and quoted in Time and elsewhere states that the world’s glaciers are shrinking and disappearing faster...
As the new Israeli government was taking shape, an open letter titled A Call to Action began to circulate among American Jewish communities. The...
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...
The evident warming relationship between Russia and China has been causing some concern in the West. Also, some media outlets relate to the alliance...
Turkey inaugurated a new visitor center named Noah’s Ark. The center on Mount Ararat was built by donations from Jews, Christians and Muslims from...
Next week begins the year 2023. When we look at 2022, there is very little to be pleased with. Above all, the war in Ukraine has disrupted the world...
Today, December 29, 2022, is the first day of a new government in Israel. The past year has been horrific for Israel: Thirty Israelis were murdered by...
Road rage has recently escalated in a display of violent incidents in Israel. One person was murdered at a pedestrian crossing for making a remark at...
One of my students told me that when he discussed his anxieties with someone close to him, like his wife or a close friend, then he found that the...
One of my students told me about a major problem with police officers in Israel, that they are resigning in droves. It used to be an honorable...
Traditional and religious holidays in Israel are usually times of national unity. These days, Israel is celebrating Hanukkah, a holiday whose essence...
Every December, there is a lot of talk in the media about human rights because the Human Rights Day is observed by the international community on...
Just let the fear go. Don’t think about what will happen in the next moment. We know nothing about what is truly going on in our lives. It is thus...
This week, the United States government announced that one of its nuclear fusion laboratories, Lawrence Livermore Lab (LLL), has achieved what US...
The text below is a summary of Dr. Laitman’s words in the show El Mundo (The World). It is said that money is not everything in life. That may be...
The universe once had compressed into a single point, exploded into what we know as “the Big Bang,” and its parts dispersed omnidirectionally...
A question I received: How do you think we could better control the spread of lies and disinformation? By understanding that the source of all...
Mutlu Meydan is a long-time student of mine. Although he was born in Turkey, he discovered the wisdom of Kabbalah and began to study with me while...