The general global crisis of humanity is obvious – depression, drugs, collapse of the family, terror, uncontrollable social systems, the threat of the use of nuclear weaponry, ecological catastrophes, and more. For example, according to the data that was published by the European Council in "Gruenbuch", Europeans suffer from serious depressions that lead to 58,000 suicides a year, while 30% of all citizens of European Commonwealth suffer mental disorders.
The imminent threat to the existence of humanity is steadily growing as a result of the use of nuclear weapons. In the leading scientists' opinion, humanity does not have that much time to prevent this crisis from development in an undesirable direction toward a world thermonuclear war or a global ecological catastrophe. More >>
Drugs as Inevitable Inclination
Upbringing
An increasing addiction to drugs is becoming a strategic problem of the entire world. Politicians do not take too much interest in this problem, because all they need is to rule over someone or something. Therefore they do everything possible to hide it and do not even prioritize it during their election campaigns. This is because they feel their helplessness and regard this issue a failed mission. Yet if we pay attention not just to what is going on at the moment, but also discern a tendency, we would certainly conclude that the humankind as an intelligent and volitional part of the universe is entering a period of self-destruction. More>>
Upbringing is the central problem of all humanity. If we were able to raise at least one generation properly, then we could be certain that all of the following generations would be brought up suitably and exist optimally in our world, thereby reaching the necessary goal. This is because each generation that receives the right upbringing can and will be capable likewise to adequately raise the next generation. More>>
Hope for Peace
The Root of Anti-Semitism
The world will not be able to exist unless humans change their attitude to the world from reception to bestowal. Indeed, our egoism is the only destructive force in the world. Apart from our human ego, all the forces in the world are forces of nature that are in perfect balance with each other. Among them, there are forces that we evaluate as "positive" and "negative" according to our understanding. However, all of them are activated and sustained by the single law of nature and exist in complete harmony at the still, vegetative, and animate levels of matter. More>>
Question: There is a rising wave of anti-Semitism sweeping over the world. It is as if being transported back 50 years, to that dark time before the beginning of the Holocaust. Why is this happening and what can be done to prevent it?
Today we are witnessing a new rise of anti-Semitism, whereas fifty years ago it was more of a local problem. Reaching global proportions today, however, its continuous spreading is more and more evident as we witness how countries, having never even heard of Jews, support anti-Semitism. In this way anti-Semitism has become a trend. More>>
Why do we say that Science is in Crisis?
Peace in the World
Question: What exactly is this science crisis everyone is talking about today?
Answer by Rav Michael Laitman, PhD: I wouldn't say that science is in crisis, this is probably what a person not involved in science imagines – that science came to en end – no, science keeps developing. So many new things, opportunities emerge around us – this is all the result of science development. More>>
Everything is evaluated not according to what it looks like at a certain moment, but by the degree of its development.
All there is in reality, good, bad and even the most harmful in the world has a right to exist. It should by no means be completely destroyed. Our task is to merely correct it and return it to the Source. More>>
Internality and Externality
A Mature Approach to Pain
66) Bear in mind, that everything has internality and externality. Israel, the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, is generally considered the internality of the world, and the seventy nations are considered its externality. Within Israel also, there is internality, which are the wholehearted worshipers of the Lord, and externality, who do not devote themselves entirely to the work of God. And among the nations of the world as well there are internal parts, which are the Righteous of the Nations, and an external part, which are the rude and the destructive among them. More>>
When I read the papers and listen to the radio, I see that the nations of the world treat me differently, because I belong to the Jewish people. The attitude is laden with anti-Semitic emotions, that make me feel frightened and hostile everywhere I go outside of Israel.
Even within Israel and around it there are peoples who wish to destroy, or at the very least, subdue us. More>>
