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marc gafni
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Evolutionary Kabbalah

Dear Friends,

It is wonderful to be able to share with you this new website, marcgafni.com, Evolutionary Kabbalah. For information about how to navigate the site, take a quick look at the tab on the left ‘about marcgafni’.

The site is under construction. We are still in the middle of editing and getting it together. I am not much of a web person but we have a great group of people working on the site, and I am grateful to all of them for their effort, love, and dedication. If you find a typo or have a navigation suggestion, please feel free to contact us at our e-mail address, info@marcgafni.com.

I pray the site serves you in a way that allows for and facilitates your growth as a fearless warrior in pursuit of your own and the world’s enlightenment. For on this, and this alone, depends the enlightenment of God.

This is the most fundamental tenet of my teaching in my dharma tradition, which I have come to call by a new term, Evolutionary Kabbalah.

The essence of Evolutionary Kabbalah, which is the core theme of our website and teaching, is that things change. That which was yesterday is not quite the same today. Every moment is new. To deny the radical newness of a moment is tantamount to heresy. For eternity resides in a moment.

That which stands against evolution is idolatry. To worship idols is to freeze a moment. It is the freezing of imagination. It is the murder of possibility. Thus, the idolater worships what is often termed in English “a graven image.” That is to say, an image that is already in the grave. One who always has this really grave and serious face. The idolater dances in death.

To serve god is to dance in life, which means to know that change is possible, and real, and happening all the time. Not only do the cells of our body fully change every seven years, the cells of our spirit change as well. However, they do not require seven years. They change fully and absolutely —at will.

This belief in human evolution, in the genuine possibility of change, is at the core of Hebrew wisdom and particularly Hebrew mystical thought.

One mystical thinker in the 12th century writes somewhere that the essence of the divinity of God is the possibility of possibility. God is ultimate possibility. God is a verb. We are all always Godding. We all are evolving.

To realize our ability to change, to heal, and to transform is the source of the greatest joy. Sadly, few of us really believe it is possible. We hold grudges against others even as we hold grudges against ourselves.

To truly inhale the possibility of possibility is one of the key pivoting points in the journey towards enlightenment.

It is to this belief and to this end that my teaching and sharing is dedicated.

People can change. Situations can change. Suffering can change. We do not have to stay stuck. We have the ability, as baby-faced divine, to stand in the abyss of darkness and say … No, No, No.

It does not have to be this way. There is a better way. We can get beneath the surface of reality — enter the source code and make it better.

It can change and it must.

There is a better way to be. A better way to live. And if you go deep into the song of the now, you will hear its siren’s call.

Today offers invitation in a way that yesterday simply could not and that tomorrow cannot yet.

In the depths of HaYom, the Hebrew word for today, is the universal sound of Om…

The Hebrew word for time is Zeman. Zeman also means in Hebrew — invitation.

An invitation to break the tyranny of yesterday.

The greatest slave driver in the world, the greatest idolatrous temptation, is the belief that yesterday determines not only today but also tomorrow.

Let people out of the box in which you have put them. Love people out of the box in which you have put them. Love yourself out of the box in which you have put yourself.

It is all in play. Anything and everything is possible.