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We Do Not Care about Children’s Tears

Comment: Mark writes: Dear Michael, how do you feel about Dostoevsky’s famous phrase “The happiness of the whole world is not worth one tear on the cheek of an innocent child”? We all learned this at school, we were brought up like that. And the result is that we do not care about children’s tears. […]

Evil Boomerangs Back to You

Comment: Famous chemist Fritz Haber was a Jew and a German patriot. It is believed he saved at least a billion people. When the world’s population increased as harvests began to decline, in 1909, he came up with a way to produce ammonia fertilizers from nitrogen and hydrogen. It was considered one of the greatest […]

You Don’t Give Us Any Solutions!

Comment: You are talking about integrality, the global nature of the world, but you do not clarify when you are asked: “What solution can we give to the world?” My Response: You do not understand this, not because I leave my message unfinished, but because your mind is not yet working to the full depth […]

“Why Are People Influenced by Ads” (Times of Israel)

Michael Laitman, On The Times of Israel: “Why Are People Influenced by Ads” We are influenced by ads because companies study what we would like and create ads that pinpoint our desires, whetting our appetites with the use of various deception and concealment techniques. For instance, if we have an initial desire for an iPhone, […]

“Does nature respond to human actions?” (Quora)

Michael Laitman, On Quora: “Does nature respond to human actions?“ Think of billions of cars driving with the Mobileye device, which alerts us if we come too close to another object. The system of nature we are in functions similarly: it alerts us when we do certain actions and gives us feedback on them. So […]

Other People’s Desires

Comment: When you describe incorporation into other people’s desires, everyone always imagines that you gave something to someone: either you brought a cup of coffee to a friend or something like that. My Response: No, a Kabbalist does not work at this level. Illusionists can work at this level—to guess a person’s desires and thus […]

Let a Person Develop

We must make efforts to create an environment where each and everyone could understand the general methodology, the general system, and the general structure of the world. Then a person slowly begins to develop. At one time I was a very technical person. To this day I do not like watching feature films. According to […]

“What are the greatest quotes about love?” (Quora)

Michael Laitman, On Quora: “What are the greatest quotes about love?“ My teacher, Kabbalist Baruch Ashlag (Rabash), used to say about love that it is like an animal that you have to feed all the time, and then it will grow. Love grows out of mutual concessions. Based on the video “Why Love Is Like […]

What Do We Need for Happiness?

Question: What makes you happy? What would you advise a person in the modern world in order to live happily? Answer: What makes me happy is that I continue to work, teach, and receive feedback from my students. This is the first. What more would I wish for? I wish that there would be a […]

“How to Make Sense of a Chaotic World” (Medium)

Medium published my new article “How to Make Sense of a Chaotic World” Almost every person in the western world is connected to sources of information that tell us what is happening in the world and help us make sense of it. Previously, the sources were primarily TV, radio, and newspapers. However, in the age […]