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Why IS this night different then all other nights: Rabbi Marc

Posted on: April 8th, 2009 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

a Post in honor of Passover dedicated to holy brother k.d. why IS this night different then all other nights… The night of the biblical myth ritual is called “Leil Shimurim — A Night of Guarding/Watching.” Instead of being the audience of ...

Giving in Love: Part Ten: Marc Gafni

Posted on: April 7th, 2009 by Marc Gafni No Comments

In Every Detail One of the most gorgeous things about relationship is that it is so clear that every small act of attention and giving weaves another strand in the fabric of the relationship. There is no such thing as a casual favor or fruitless givi ...

To be a Lover is to Give what is Hard for You to Give: Marc Gafni

Posted on: April 6th, 2009 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

This is for you babe…. To be a lover does not mean to grandstand and show people how kind and caring you are. “I love helpless stray cats and send food to the poor.” Although those are clearly two beautiful things to do. The Deep Dh ...

Giving in Love: Part Ten: Marc Gafni

Posted on: April 4th, 2009 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

posted by Dr Marc Gafni asst. I remember one evening when my second son, Yair, first asked me for a new bicycle that I could not afford. It hurt. I thought about it all night. Had I pursued other directions in life, I would be able to easily provide ...

Giving in Love: Part Nine: Marc Gafni

Posted on: April 2nd, 2009 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

Dedicated to Lord Bruce and Lady Mary One of the great Biblical loves is that of Jacob for Rachel. The scene where Jacob, having left fame, family and fortune behind, meets Rachel at the well is well known. He loves her, kisses her and cries. Love an ...

Giving in Love: Part Eight: Marc Gafni

Posted on: April 1st, 2009 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

Love is as Love Does Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. -Ursula K. LeGuin, The Lathe of Heaven Loving and giving are inextricably bound up. The great medieval philosopher Maimoni ...

Giving in Love: Part Seven: Marc Gafni

Posted on: March 31st, 2009 by Marc Gafni 2 Comments

A Light Motif Now the core intuition of all the great systems of the spirit is that love is captured best by the image of light. Kabbala teaches that the light which fills the vessels of creation is love. The word Torah itself — an all-encompassing ...

Giving in Love: Marc Gafni: Part Six

Posted on: March 30th, 2009 by Marc Gafni No Comments

To love is to be committed to the growth of the other. This always requires at least the temporary ability for self-transcendence. We are divinely hardwired for giving as self-transcendence. God in the meditations of the mystics reveals herself as a ...

Giving in Love: Marc Gafni: Part Five

Posted on: March 29th, 2009 by Marc Gafni No Comments

The Baron Loves The giving necessary in love is made clear in a great folktale. There was once a fisherman who caught a large pike. Seeing what a substantial catch this was, he says out loud, “I won’t eat this fish. He is such a great catch that ...

Giving in Love: Marc Gafni: Part Four

Posted on: March 28th, 2009 by Marc Gafni No Comments

posted by Dr. Gafni assistant Dr. Gafni asked me to dedicate this post to the staff and community of iEvolve Global Practice Community Transcendence & the Gradual Widening of Self To be a lover is to be a giver. It is through the consistent commi ...

Giving in Love: Part Three: Marc Gafni

Posted on: March 26th, 2009 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Transcendence & the Gradual Widening of Self  To be a lover is to be a giver. It is through the consistent commitment to the growth of the other expressed through regular and spontaneous acts of giving that you become a lover. Slowly over time â ...

Giving in Love: Part Two with Marc Mordechai Gafni

Posted on: March 25th, 2009 by Marc Gafni No Comments

You see, built into the sexual is an enormous desire to give, particularly to give pleasure. In virtually all arenas of living, most of us are perpetually on the prowl for the great deal. The great deal is always about getting the most while giving ...

Giving in Love: Part One: Marc Gafni

Posted on: March 24th, 2009 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

Sensual Saints Rollo May, in his classic work Love and Will, correctly bemoans modernity’s overemphasis on performance and technique at the expense of feeling and passion. He tells one story of a patient who used ointment on the tip of his sexual o ...

Next Steps on the Path of Eros: Giving, Giving Receiving, and Giving up Control: Marc Gafni

Posted on: March 23rd, 2009 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

New set of blogs starting here… The Second Path of Hebrew Tantra: At this point that we are ready to embark on the next three Hebrew Tantric paths of loving. They are Giving (Transcendence), Giving and Receiving, and Giving up Control (Surrende ...

Giving in Love: Marc Gafni

Posted on: March 20th, 2009 by Marc Gafni No Comments

posted by Marc Gafni assistant I want to be a lover. You want to be a lover. Together we are charting the course of love. What a tremendous privilege to journey with you, to share with you the secret of the cherubs, to be in awe together over the mys ...