Dr. Michael Laitman

A meal made lovingly by a mother or grandmother carries far more than taste.

Another stage is approaching in human evolution, a time when the kind of love we know in our world will disappear.

The principle of “Love your neighbor as yourself” is not simply a beautiful idea or moral instruction.

“Shabbat … is regarded as the purpose of heaven and earth, regarded as the ‘purpose of creation,’ meaning the completion of the final purpose.

The lighting of Shabbat candles symbolizes our desire that our family and the people of Israel attain wholeness, and that we all feel like one family.

Israel is a unique country, a microcosm.

The weekly Torah portion points to the corrections we must undergo in our relationships with one another.

Our entire life, history and evolution is to transition from unfounded hatred, which is our inborn egoistic nature, i.e., a quality of wishing to enjoy ourselves at the expense of others, and to achieve the love of others.

The spiritual work of the six weekdays begins with what we call “recognition of evil.”

How should we relate to a person’s passing from this world, to a funeral, and to comforting mourners?

Shabbat symbolizes a corrected humanity, which exists in delight, what is called “the delight of Shabbat” (“Oneg Shabbat”), in a state of rest.

Congratulations, you’ve bought a home.

For Jews living in the Diaspora, things are somewhat simpler.

At a Jewish wedding, the bride and groom get married under a wedding canopy (Chuppah).

As we approach Tisha B’Av, the day commemorating the ruin of the Holy Temple and the shattering of our unity as a single entity, we face existential threats and witness a growing trend of Israelis wanting to leave the country.

How can we turn a wedding into a truly connecting event, one that warms the hearts of all the guests and gives the young couple the strength to build their relationship on a solid foundation?

Miriam, Yael, Queen Esther, Hannah the barren woman, and Ruth the Moabite.

When we look at the natural world around us, we see that it is entirely unified.

“Do not wrong one another,” the Torah instructs, and the sages explain this to mean that “a person’s mouth and heart should always be in agreement.”

Once, there were no Israelis.

Whether we like it or not, we live in a network.

Everyone has an ego, it is natural.

A well-known Hasidic tale tells of a king’s daughter who fell gravely ill.

No book has influenced the world more than the Bible.

On the surface, the laws and principles of the Ten Commandments seem clear, but they contain a deeper layer.

Ultimately, everything in the Ten Commandments comes back to the fundamental principle: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

Mesopotamia, the cradle of modern civilization, also known as “the land between two rivers,” was a vast and fertile region situated between the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers, in present-day Iraq.

The tenth and final commandment is: “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his servant, or his maidservant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

The ninth commandment, “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor,” carries a profound meaning.

The eighth commandment is “You Shall Not Steal.”

In order to build a society founded on connection and love, we must aspire to connect with the desires of others and fulfill what they lack.

The commandment “You shall not murder” teaches that we must never sever any possible connection with another person and always judge others favorably.

The fifth commandment, “Honor Your Father and Your Mother,” is one of the most well known.

Why do army friends hold such a special place in our hearts?

The fourth commandment, “Remember the Sabbath Day, to Keep It Holy,” means that we need to undergo a process of correction in order to reach a state of perfect connection.

To “take the name of the Lord in vain” means engaging in various actions that are unrelated to building connection between us, while expecting them somehow to bring us into contact with the Creator, i.e., the upper force of love and bestowal.

The second commandment states: “You shall have no other gods before Me.”

The first commandment states: “I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.”

The story of Mount Sinai raises an important question: what kind of interaction existed there between people, and what can we learn from it in relation to what is happening today in Israel and throughout the world?

Many people who hear the word “God” imagine a distant being somewhere beyond the world, watching over human affairs.

The Jewish people are a microcosm.

While we are alive here in this world, i.e., this form of existence of protein-based matter, there is an immense number of tiny grains of egoism, which are corrupted desires to enjoy for self-benefit alone that were created by the Creator—the single force…

What exactly do we celebrate on Seder night?

To uncover the code hidden in the Passover story, we need to begin long before the Exodus from Egypt.

How do you feel as if you are one nation with someone who thinks the exact opposite of you, with someone who behaves in ways that infuriate you, and who makes you feel that they are driving your very country to collapse?

Depression, addictions, and divorce all stem from a lack of happiness.

A business without a vision will eventually go bankrupt.

Humanity is constantly waiting for positive changes to come from the outside.

What is the difference between military service and civilian life?

First, what is the upper world?