If you want to predict a person’s behavior, look at his environment and not at the person himself. • How do we get a hold on that criminal that resides deep down inside of us? • How does one define betrayal?

If you want to predict a person’s behavior, look at his environment and not at the person himself. • How do we get a hold on that criminal that resides deep down inside of us? • How does one define betrayal?

11.8.2022
Kabbalists knew about the importance of the environment’s influence on people for over 4,000 years, and more recently, it has become clearer to scientists—that If you want to predict a person’s behavior, look at his environment and not at the person himself. So why aren’t we using this in order to improve humanity? • 50 years ago, an experiment was conducted to view what a person is capable of doing. Serbian artist, Sara Abramovitch, stood in front of a long table on which 72 items were placed, matches, knives, spoons, wine, honey, a piece of cake, a box of blades, and a scalpel. Spectators were allowed to do whatever they wanted. By the third hour, all her clothes were cut by the blades, by the fourth hour, the blades had reached her skin. 50 years later a similar experiment was conducted with two young ladies who stood near a table on which there was cosmetics, jewelry, food, and paint. Spectators approached, one placed a necklace on one of the ladies, others made them up with makeup and eventually one splashed on them scarlet colored paint representing blood, the second one's dress was torn, etc. How do we get a hold on that criminal that resides deep down inside of us? • According to psychologists, a person can only have one friend, and even then, not always, it is easier to endure the stab from an enemy than a pinprick from a friend. How does one define betrayal?