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This course has helped me see that people are deeply shaped by the environment around them, and that real happiness grows through connection, not isolation.
It also showed me that our ego often pushes us toward personal gain, but caring for others and building a supportive group can bring better health, stronger relationships, and more meaning.
Going forward, I would like to keep learning how to create a warm, respectful, and cooperative environment where good habits, listening, and kindness spread naturally.
In simple terms, I want to remember that we are connected, and that when we help each other rise, everyone benefits.In order for our ego to become altruistic, we need a good environment that gently influences us with examples of warmth, care, and connection.
We should also study the wisdom of Kabbalah for several hours a day with our group of 10, so we can keep reminding each other what kind of kind behaviors and feelings we want to build in us.
By repeating acts of support, listening, and bestowal, these actions can become second nature in us and spread through the group in a socially contagious way.
Like an incubator, the ten gives us safety and love so our ego can gradually change into a desire to benefit the friends.It is difficult to notice because the influence of our environment works quietly, underneath our awareness. Our daily lives are shaped by the people, culture, and conditions around us, but since these changes happen little by little, they feel like they come from us alone.
The ego is the driving force in our lives, so it makes us believe our thoughts and choices are fully independent. That can hide the fact that many of our attitudes and actions are actually being formed by the surroundings we live in.
We think we are choosing everything by ourselves, but the environment is also guiding us in the background.
Yes too many times to count, sometimes I would try to defend myself from a place of pain and frustration, and instead of acting with balance, I would react with harsh words or cut people off. I see now that this was a survival response born from feeling defeated. Through the lens of Kabbalah, I am learning to replace reactive self-protection with inner strength, restraint, and the power of bestowal.”
Social solidarity means learning to see ourselves as connected, so education should build responsibility for one another instead of competition and isolation. It also means cooperating with nature, not against it, by helping people grow in ways that fit human interdependence rather than forcing selfishness, pressure, and constant rivalry. Laitman’s books suggest that children, parents, teachers, and even prisoners change best in an environment that models care, equality, shared purpose, and harmony with nature’s laws.
Here are the top 5 things to create that kind of environment:
1) build a welcoming atmosphere of mutual respect and inclusion,
2) encourage cooperation over competition,
3) use differentiated support so everyone can participate at their level,
4) give people safe chances to ask questions, take healthy risks, and lead, and
5) build regular reflection and self-assessment into the process.
These principles fit dr Michael Laitman’s view of integral education, where the environment shapes people through connection, responsibility, and practical experience rather than simple instruction.
