From Chaos to Harmony

Rav Michael Laitman, PhD

Table of Contents

Credits
About the Author
The Structure of the Book
Foreword

PART ONE: FROM CHAOS TO HARMONY

Prologue

CHAPTER 1: DESIRE IS EVERYTHING

• One Cause, One Solution
• Evolution of the Human Desire for Pleasure

CHAPTER 2: THE BOUNDARIES OF JOY

• Fooling the Desire to Enjoy

CHAPTER 3: ALTRUISM IS LIFE’S LAW

• Harmony Among Cells in a Living Organism
• Connectedness Creates Life in a New Degree
• An Egoistic Cell is a Cancerous Cell
• The Individual vs. the Collective
• Helping Others
• A Communal Society Among Animals
• Interdependency
• Without Poverty or Lack
• In Nature, Everything Moves Toward Unity

CHAPTER 4: BREACHING THE BALANCE

• What Gives Us Pleasure?
• Correct Use of the Ego
• The Crisis as an Opportunity to Restore Balance

CHAPTER 5: OBEYING NATURE’S LAW

• Life's Purpose
• What Should We Do?
• Much Easier Than It Seems
• A Long Way and a Short Way
• Changing Our Attitude Toward Others Brings All of Nature into Balance

CHAPTER 6: THE ROAD TO FREEDOM

• Pleasure and Pain
• Where Does Choice Come In?

CHAPTER 7: REALIZING OUR FREE CHOICE

• Imitating Nature
• A New Direction

CHAPTER 8: EVERYTHING IS READY (FOR LIFE’S PURPOSE)

• Evolution of the Generations
• Society's Approach to Altruism
• A New Generation of Confident, Happy Children
• Egoists and Altruists

CHAPTER 9: A REALITY OF WHOLENESS AND INFINITY

• Perceptions of Reality
• Life is Within
• Nature's Plan
• Opening Our Eyes

CHAPTER 10: BALANCE WITH NATURE

• Balance at the Speaking Level

PART TWO: ISRAEL’S ROLE

• Israel's Role
• Humanity and the Wisdom of Kabbalah
• The Birth of the People of Israel
• The Evolution of the Correction Method
• The Role of Israel
• The Return to the Land of Israel
• Uniting the Nation
• Anti-Semitism
• The Rise of the Islam
• Internality and Externality
• The War of Gog and Magog
• The Future of the World is in Our Hands

Notes
Further Reading
About Bnei Baruch

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