Distance learning puts teachers under a lot of pressure to cover the material while it is hard for students due to the many distractions. Teachers and administrators need to ask themselves how to make studies seem more important in the eyes of children. Parents need to see their children’s studies as very important and also take part in them by, for example, depicting the teachers as kings and queens. Cell phone companies should disconnect phones during school hours. We need to arrange the education system differently so that teachers and students will work together, integrating and sharing in mutuality and connection. The study has to be done in a group and should include many exercises and activities so that the students will remain focused. Competitions can be held in which the kids are divided into two groups in order to encourage and motivate them. We need to take problems from daily life, from the family, and from what happens in the country, things that the kids are familiar with, and work on them as part of the study material. The social aspect is important to students as well so we need to establish the right communication between them during the lesson. We have an opportunity today to really change the outdated education system and to participate in the building of man.

Adult children of aging parents need to come together to share the care with time, energy, and money. It is impossible to determine how to equally share care for aging parents since we don’t have any way of measuring diverse contributions. Each child has their own unique situation that cannot be accurately compared with the siblings’ contexts. According to the wisdom of Kabbalah and an integral perspective, children must put their differences aside and meet once a month or twice a year to divide up the duties associated with caring for their aging parents in a purposeful, businesslike manner, without emotion. The wellbeing of the parents should be the focus. Each child gives what they can, whether it’s time to take the parents to medical appointments, money to pay for services in the home, or emotional warmth and care. Each one pays back the parents as though paying back the Creator since the Creator arranges our parents for us.

Children bully each other because humans are born with an evil inclination to harm, rule, dominate, and control others. Bullied children will not wish to speak about it due to fear that their parents will look down on them and they will get into more trouble with the bullies. In order to prevent bullying, teachers should use theatre in the classroom to teach integral education. Students will learn that every person is included in everyone else and that they can be any character whether strong/weak, smart/dumb, big/small, bad/good, honest/a liar, and later on in the process, bully/bullied. Everyone has to scrutinize, talk with one another, and relate to one another in their roles. They change roles regularly so that they learn that there are other states and they will become integrated in them all. They will come out of their shells, fears, and the roles that they feel locked into. They will learn to break down the walls that divide them by working together to achieve a common goal (in the theatre) and evoking a good attitude in others until they all feel as one.

All of nature is round and it is only the human species that isn’t functioning accordingly. Nature has given us a collective “punishment” with the coronavirus and is forcing us to awaken to the need for cooperation as a single global family. We must become equals and support one another, no longer profiting at the expense of others. The world requires related global planning, education, and governance. If international relations don’t become more balanced, stronger blows are liable to come. Humanity has an influence on the entire system of nature. We have no choice but to spiritually develop.

Nature is showing us, through the coronavirus, that we are each other’s future and that we have no choice but to advance toward a new, mutual connection. There is an engine in nature that is constantly developing us toward a state in which we will see humanity as a single, integral character that we want to improve. We have been developing incorrectly in an egoistic and competitive way. We have sullied, polluted, and destroyed nature. Let’s dream about the life that we would want our children to have, and start building it among us now.

An independent Israel is a nation whose goal is to serve as an example for a new kind of communication based on the general rule, “You shall love your friend as yourself.” If Israel becomes connected, we will have independence and no one will harm us; a higher power will protect us. The coronavirus is pushing us to become a single humanity. Additional viruses will not let us rest until we construct friendly systems of connection between us at which point everything will calm down. Imagine a world without borders and nations, how good it would be. I hope for the nation of Israel to understand what it must do and then the entire world will be blessed.

An educator should give a good attitude to a child and then gradually connect this with investment in studies. A teacher who wants to be loved by his students must be honest with them. He must be smart, great, and protective, in the same way that a mother relates to her children. Grades should be eliminated. It would be worthwhile to build a feeling in children that they are a team using games that require collaboration. The child should feel that his or her success depends on connection with others and mutual complementation rather than on egoism. In an integral game of soccer, for example, the team would score a point due to their cooperation and harmony rather than kicking a ball through goal posts. An educator must lead students to feel that real life is found in the connection between them.

The move toward virtual learning will cause major changes in the educational system. Learning must build an integral society such that the threads of connection pass between all the students. In a soccer game, for example, each one is taught to give credit to the others, wanting everyone to enjoy the game. Everyone is given an equal opportunity and an equal sense of relationship beyond all differences, just like a mother who loves each of her children. The goal of education is to build the feeling that everyone is connected with a single heart so that love can be born among us.

How is the conversation in the workshop a simulation of the corrected connection between us? What is the purpose of a gathering of friends, and what is the internal effort that a student does during a shared meal?