Rabbi michael laitman biography

Rav Michael Laitman, PhD, is an international authority on authentic Kabbalah.
Biography.
Professor of Ontology, PhD in Philosophy and Kabbalah, and MSc in bio-Cybernetics.

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Michael Laitman

Founder of the Bnei Baruch Kabbalah Education & Research Institute, which is dedicated to teaching and sharing the wisdom of Kabbalah. Professor of Ontology, PhD in Philosophy and Kabbalah, and MSc in bio-Cybernetics. Father of three and grandfather of three.

I was born in 1946. When I graduated from college, I chose to major in bio-Cybernetics. After my internship I worked at a Hematology Research Center in Leningrad. Even as a student I was impressed by the wondrous manner in which the organic cell sustains life. I was in awe by the way in which the cell harmoniously incorporates itself in the rest of the body.

It is quite common to study the structure of cells, their functionalities, and to ask about the purpose of their existence, meaning how they function with respect to the rest of the body. But the question I could not find the answer to concerned the purpose of the existence of the whole body.

I assumed that like the cells in the organism, the body is a part of a greater system, towards which it functions as a part of the whole. But my rel

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Michael Laitman is the founder and president of the Bnei Baruch Kabbalah Education & Research Institute, which is dedicated to teaching and sharing the wisdom of Kabbalah. Professor of Ontology, PhD in Philosophy and Kabbalah, and MSc in bio-Cybernetics. Father of three and grandfather of three. Dr. Laitman has received the unlikely distinction of being today's foremost authority on authentic Kabbalah. His research and study led him to ancient sources which reveal a science about how the natural laws of living systems work in human thought and desire, and the direct way this impacts human relations globally. He is the author of The Complete Idiots Guide to Kabbalah, as well as thirty other books on the subject published in fourteen languages. In his book, From Chaos to Harmony, written in 2005 – long before the current financial crisis erupted – he laid out in detail, what would cause it, the positive purpose the crisis would serve, and what change people would need to undergo to solve it. A warm engaging personality, with a down-to-earth concern for others, Dr. Laitman s

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Michael Laitman[]

Michael Laitman, Professor of Ontology and the Theory of Knowledge, Ph.D. in Philosophy and Kabbalah, and M.Sc in Medical Bio-Cybernetics, is founder and director of Bnei Baruch Kabbalah Education & Research Institute. Laitman was the student and personal assistant of Rav Baruch Ashlag, the eldest son of renowned 20th Century Kabbalist, Rav Yehuda Ashlag, author of the authoritative Sulam (Ladder) Commentary on The Book of Zohar.

In 1991, Michael Laitman established Bnei Baruch, a group of Kabbalah students that implements the legacy of Rabash (Rav Baruch Shalom Ashlag) on a day-to-day basis. Today, the members of Bnei Baruch research, study, and circulate the wisdom of Kabbalah.

Biography[]

Michael Laitman was born on August 31st, 1946, in Vitebsk (Belarus).

In 1970, he completed his studies in biological and medical cybernetics. Laitman conducted specialized research involving the electromagnetic regulation of blood supplies to the heart and brain at the Kronshtadt's Laboratories Military Medical Academy.
In 1974, Laitman moved to Israel w