Youth Suicide and Depression is only cured by the Correct Education

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Millions of young people suffer from suicidal tendencies, depression and drug addiction because they’re hopeless. A medicine cabinet filled with anti-depressants isn’t going to help; they need real answers.

by Rav Michael Laitman, PhD

According to the World Health Organization, someone around the globe commits suicide every 40 seconds. In the year 2000 (a long time ago, but things have only worsened since), 815,000 people lost their lives to suicide — more than double the number of people who die as a direct result of armed conflict every year (306,600). For people between the ages of 15 and 44, suicide is the fourth leading cause of death and the sixth leading cause of disability and infirmity worldwide. Also, according to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, “Combined 2004 and 2005 data indicate that 8.88 percent of youths aged 12 to 17 and 7.65 percent of adults aged 18 or older experienced at least one major depressive episode (MDE) in the past year.”

Millions of people the world over, and especially the younger generation, are committing suicide or suffering from suicidal tendencies, depression, drug addiction and violence because they’re hopeless. They have real questions and they need real answers, and there is no one to provide them with answers except us — the parents.

In his book “Man’s Search for Meaning,” Viktor Frankl quotes Friedrich Nietzsche as saying that “He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how.” more…

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Spiritual Search

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One man’s search for meaning in life. A personal story by Bnei Baruch student Ed Stedman discusses the desire to find meaning in life, or what Kabbalists call “the desire for spirituality,” as the final stage of desire emerging in humanity today.

Three years ago I was riding a subway train in Toronto when a short announcement in the newspaper caught my eye. There was to be an introductory Kabbalah lecture at my local library and although I was totally unfamiliar with Kabbalah, I somehow felt that it was an ancient wisdom that might have something to offer me.

This initial lecture by Tony Kosinec (lecturer for the ARI Online Kabbalah Education Center and spokesperson for Bnei Baruch USA) was a mixture of technical diagrams and an assertion that there was some sort of potential power in a unified group of students. I felt compelled to check out this assertion.

That was three years ago and my life has now changed so radically that it seems like another lifetime. What have I learned in three years? more…

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AUDIO: Mission: Possible (And Mandatory)

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Mission: Possible (And Mandatory)
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Kabbalists explain that the only role of the Jewish people is to reveal to humanity how it can achieve the highest possible level of existence, and that the Jewish people have no choice in the matter. more…

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Kabbalah Today Issue 4 Podcast

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A Kabbalah Today Issue 4 podcast compilation has been created containing the following playlist (the links are to the articles in the paper, containing the audio files for the articles alone):

Why Kabbalah, Why Now?
A “Properly Working” Nature
Between Creator and Creature
Unraveling the Zohar: a Wake-Up Call
Who Are You, People of Israel?
Spiritual Education

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