Marc Gafni – GOD’S POETS

Marc Gafni
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In our deepest erotic longings, so many of us do want to be God’s poets, God’s prophets and priests. Yet we are ashamed to admit it —sometimes even to ourselves. We fear to appear ridiculous or grandiose even in our own eyes. Yet the biblical myth insists that we are all priests and prophets in potential. We can all enter the Holy of Holies for it is within us. In contradistinction to the priestly class and prophetic elites of the ancient Near East, Biblical myth talks of a kingdom of priests and a people who are all prophets.

Life itself is the only real Temple of the spirit. Eros is everywhere. Churches and synagogues are a pallid, even if important, compromise for our dis-enchanted age.

The Zohar teaches that every erotic inside experience is a Shechina experience of the Holy of Holies. It is when we become one with the way,Mark when we have moved from the outside to the inside. It is in this sense that the Temple is called in Hebrew the Bayit. Bayit means, quite simply, Home.

The holiest place in the world — is home. Eros is about coming home. We all live split off from our selves. We feel all too often like imposters in our own lives, wearing masks and wondering when, and if, it will ever start to feel like home. That is what it means to live on the outside.