Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com 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 ...
Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com 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 ...
Marc Gafni Posted on marcgafni.com Comments welcome on info@marcafni.com Today we were in Maidanek, Lublin and arrived for Shabbat in Krakow. About Maidanek Lublin after shabbot. A word before sundown. The purpose of our trip is to participate in an ...
The Interior Castle “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson The cherubs in the magical mystery of Temple myth were not stationary fixtures. No, these statues were exp ...
Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com Remember the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark, featuring Indiana Jones adventuring through the dusty Middle East in search of the Ark of the Covenant? Lives are lost, blood i ...
Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com Hebrew mysticism, beginning with Abraham, gave birth to Judaism, Christianity and Islam. All three religions in their pure forms are rooted in the Temple of Jerusalem. Hen ...
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com EROS: O Taste and See The world is not with us enough O taste and see the subway Bible poster said, meaning The Lord, meaning if anything all that lives to the imagination ...
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com The White Spaces We are on a journey to Love. For as the Zohar writes ‘All the Paths (Shvilin) lead to the Temple of love’. Wherever you are, wherever you are standing ...
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com side bar personal note before body of post: I am not a great dancer:) Grew up in Yeshiva, Orthodox Jewish School where dancing was kind of primitive even if wild and ecsta ...
Hebrew Wisdom as a Path to Liberation: Part One. Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com In yesterday’s post I mentioned the idea of enlightenment. The common wisdom is that enlightenment is not a Jewish idea. ...
Marc Gafni Published on marcgafni.com Please share comments at info@marcgafni.com In reaching for the awakening of love we do well to bear in mind the teaching of mystical master Menachem Mendel of Kutz. Writing in eastern Europe in the first half of ...
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com The footnotes shared in Eros and Holiness Post Eight require some explanation. First, they are intended primarily for advanced Students. Second, they are for the most p ...
posted by marc gafni on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com For an explanation about the nature of these notes and the nature of creating new spiritual thought in general particularly from ancient and sacred sources, see please ...
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com Speed Racer is Eros= Holiness= Sanity= Atonement= Joy Everyone has a place in life where they can be sane. That is the place where they know reality. Where part merges ...
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com Speed Racer is about teaching and transmission; Rex Racer, his father and mother and Trixie his girl friend since age seven or so are all Speed Racers teachers even as ...
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com Eros and Holiness: Part Seven Dance Me to the End of Love Life is a choice. You can remain a bee trapped in a bottle and everyone―except yourself―will be ...