From Chaos to Harmony
Rav Michael Laitman, PhD
Notes
1. World Health Organization, Mental health, Depression, http://www.who.int/mental_health/management/depression/definition/en/; WHO, Fact sheet: Mental and neuro-logical disorders http://www.who.int/whr/2001/media_centre/en/. The data were taken from the WHO site, as well as from the site of Israel Ministry of Health, http://www.health. gov.il/download/mental/annual2003/p2-12.pdf.
2. World Health Organization, Mental health, suicide rates per 100,000 by country, year and sex, http://www.who.int/ mental_health/prevention/suicide//en/Figures_web0604_ table.pdf
3. Dr. Dalia Gilboa, chair of the Inter-Ministry committee for prevention of youth suicide, http://www.health.gov. il/pages/default.asp?maincat=10&catId=75
4. The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), Drug Policy Information Clearinghouse, Fact Sheet, March 2003.
5. Published June 27, 2006, http://www.ynet.co.il/ articles/0,7340,L-3267779,00.html. The full report is available at the U.N. web site, http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/ world_drug_report.html.
6. Data is taken from http://www.divorcemag.com/statistics/statsWorld.shtm
7. Publish in a Yedioth Aharonot newspaper article May 14, 2006.
8. Kabbalist Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag (1884-1954) is known by the title Baal HaSulam (Owner of the Ladder) for a commentary on The Book of Zohar that he wrote, titled “The Sulam (Ladder) commentary.” Baal HaSulam is considered the successor of Rabbi Isaac Luria (The Holy Ari). His method is unique in that it allows any person to internalize the origins of the authentic Kabbalistic knowledge, which the formers Kabbalists have left behind.
9. Baal HaSulam, Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah, item 1. This quote is also available in M. Laitman, The Science of Kabbalah, 2005, Laitman Kabbalah Publishers, p. 87.
10. Babylonian Talmud, Baba Kama, 45, 72.
11. Published June 2006 in Science magazine. The research was headed by 2002 Nobel Prize laureate in economics, Daniel Kahneman.
12. Baal HaSulam, Talmud Eser Sefirot (The Study of the Ten Sefirot), Part One.
13. For more on this, see Nedelcu’s and Michod’s essay, The Evolutionary Origin of an Altruistic Gene, published May 2006 in the Journal of Molecular Biology and Evolution.
14. From the biological point of view, it is customary to define altruism as behavior that is beneficial to others, ostensibly at the expense of the creature’s own ability to survive and multiply. Several theories have been constructed to explain why animals behave in this manner, and we shall briefly review the leading ones. The theory of “Group Selection” asserts that altruism serves the good of the group to which an animal belongs, hence the specific animal is rewarded by it, too. The theory of “Kin Selection” explains that if altruism is turned toward the kin, which carry similar genes, it indirectly contributes to the survival of its own genes. The “Symbiosis” theory argues that altruistic behavior is based upon the particular animal being somehow rewarded for the act. The “Handicap” principle relates to altruism as the way in which a particular element expresses its uniqueness and qualities.
15. Frans B. M. de Waal, Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals, 1996, Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
16. Prof. Theodore C. Bergstrom, The Evolution of Social Behaviour: Individual and Group Selection Models, Journal of Economic Perspectives. Volume 16, Number 2. Spring 2002: pp. 67.
17. All references to The Book of Zohar relate to Yehuda Ashlag’s Zohar with the Sulam Commentary.
18. Dopaminergic polymorphisms associated with self-report measures of human altruism: a fresh phenotype for the dopamine D4 receptor, Molecular Psychiatry, April 2005; 10(4):333-335.
19. Editor’snote:Perceptionofrealityisdiscussedextensively in the author’s book, Kabbalah, Science, and the Meaning of Life.
20. In that regard, it is recommended to read Rambam’s description of this process in The Mighty Hand, Laws of Idolatry, Chapter One, item 3.
21. A. Nebel, D. Filon, B. Brinkmann, PP. Majumder, M. Faerman, A. Oppenheim, The Y chromosome pool of Jews as part of the genetic landscape of the Middle East, The American Journal of Human Genetics, 2001, 1095-112:(5)69.
22. http://www.makorrishon.net/show.asp?id=14018 23 http://www.nrg.co.il/online/11/ART1/486/489. html
24. Editor’s note: the practical implementation of the principles, as they are presented in Baal HaSulam writings, is explicated in Rav Laitman’s book The Last Generation.
25. http://www.nfc.co.il/NewsPrintVersion.asp?docId=33 202&subjectID=1
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