The following essay is the first of ten essays in a book called Integral Kabbalah and the Evolution of Tears. Copyright 2005 Marc Gafni. It touches on the Hebrew vision of Enlightenment, Evolutionary Kabbalah and Integral Judaism and Kabbalah. For th ...
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Enlightenment
by Marc Gafni The basic teaching that I was sharing in 2005 and 2006 was that Torah is an enlightenment teaching. Hebrew wisdom is an ENLIGHTENMENT teaching. HEBREW WISDOM IS A LIBERATION TEACHING. Particularly I taught and teach and will teach that ...
Book Outline – Tape Transcript 2
MPI MEDIA PRODUCTIONS INTERNATIONAL from Marc Gafni MAN: The story in the Talmud, which is about the path of yearning … about following my longing. About a little boy or a young man who reaches bar mitzvah, or confirmation, and he receives all ...
The Fifth Gate: Completing the Circle
Chapter 21: Ruth, the Moabite from the book by Ohad Ezrachi and Marc Gafni When Boaz decides to marry Ruth, the Moabite, the elders of Bethlehem, who sit by the gates of the city, bless him with an exceptional blessing: All the people at the gate and ...
The Fourth Gate: Reincarnations
Chapter 16: Reincarnation as a Sifting of Good and Evil from the book by Ohad Ezrachi and Marc Gafni According to Lurianic Kabbalah, the holy sparks that exist inside every one of us are almost invisible to the naked eye. One ventures upon the spirit ...
The Third Gate: Upper Leah and the Women of “Binah”
Chapter 10: Leah, The Scholarly Woman from the book by Ohad Ezrachi and Marc Gafni In this gate we will look at how the Ari defines the unique nature of partzuf Leah. We will observe how, by sanctifying the image of partzuf Leah, the Ari facilitated ...
The Second Gate: Leah is Lillith
Chapter 5: Biblical Figures Unlock the Divine from the book by Ohad Ezrachi and Marc Gafni Those who see Lillith as the first feminist are following in the footsteps of the Ari. For, in the writings of the Kabbalists who preceded the Ari, Lillith is ...
Purim and the Carnival of Alternative Selves
by Marc Gafni Things are rarely what they seem, Skim milk masquerades as Cream –W. S. Gilbert, H.M.S. Pinafore According to the Kabbalah, Purim is an explosive time of paradigm shift and radical change. We all have a Purim dimension to our pers ...
The 15th day of Shevat: “Tell them that I was here Before”
by Marc Gafni On the fifteenth day of Shevat we celebrate the planting of trees. A day of myriad symbols and images–all holy and sweet. There are two ways to probe the essence of a holy day. One is as a scholar, the other as a spiritual anthropolog ...
Passover Seder; Remembering the Future
by Marc Gafni The Seder is a mystical magical night. It is the Jewish Fourth of July commemorating the annivarsary of our freedom, celebrating the liberation and birth of our nation. But it is ever so much more than that. It is the night when parents ...
Where is God!
by Marc Gafni In one of Reb Shlomo’s last albums, he talks about the missing soldiers. Thinking about the soldiers and their families’ suffering he says, “We also have a little bit of a claim against God.” – Holy words f ...
The First Gate: Why Lillith?
The following is a translation of the Hebrew Book, Lillith; A Re-Reading of Feminine Shadow, by Ohad Ezrahi and Marc Gafni, published in 2005. In regard to the nature of this partnership, see the note below. Ohad has written a note about this on his ...