posted by Marc Gafni assistant My heart is open. YES YES YES YES YES YES YES!! YES! I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of a lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!” ~Oriah ...

Give To Them a Story For those, who even after the last few blogs, are still unsatisfied and find it too painful to give in an undiscriminating way, I ask a simple question: how would you like to be a person asking for money on the street? Much as we ...

On Being Charitable and Being Choosy… “One Second,” I say before my tourist friend can run away, “Let me tell you a story of the Great Master Zusia of Onipol.” Zusia had a disciple who would visit him occasionally and donate funds towar ...

There is a teaching that if you have a hundred different coins, you should give them to a hundred different people. Even though the money will have little real life impact on the recipient’s economic reality, the very act of giving to every hand yo ...

posted by Gafni assistant In Jerusalem, my home, the streets are filled with beggars, men and women who for all sorts of different reasons make their living by asking passers-by to “share the wealth.” In almost any other city in the world, these ...

One of the most counter intuitive dictums of Hebrew wisdom reads “Greater is one who does out of command —(metzuveh) than one who does even though he is not commanded (Eino metzuveh).” Logically, the opposite should be true. Is not the one who ...

marc gafni In the language of the Kabbalists, giving moves you from narrow constricted consciousness to mochim de gadlut, expanded consciousness. This is critical to understand because what it means is that agape and philia lead to Eros. In the Greek ...