Re-Post: The Biblical Roots of Love Dedicated to Lady Mary and Lord Bruce:) Someone once said that reading the Bible in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil. To touch the mystery of Hebrew mysticism, you need to touch your lips to the o ...
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To See With God’s Eyes: The Story of Abraham: Marc Gafni
To See With God’s Eyes: Marc Gafni Someone once said that reading the Bible in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil. To touch the mystery of Hebrew mysticism, you need to touch your lips to the original words themselves. The key w ...
April 2-5, 2009 – Kristen Ulmer’s Ski to Live Weekend – with guest Marc Gafni
Marc Gafni will be delivering several teachings at the world famous Ski To Live clinics of Kristen Ulmer. Kristen Ulmer, voted for twelve years running the best woman skier in the world, is a pioneer in the extreme sports movement. She currently stud ...
Moving from Fear to Love: Marc Gafni
Love, Fear and … Mystic philosopher Isaac of Homil radically interprets the biblical phrase, “He saw the picture of God” to mean, not that Moses has a mystical vision of divinity and sees a picture of God, but that, far more powerfully, Moses s ...
Perception is Love: Marc Gafni
Someone once said that reading the Bible in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil. To touch the mystery of Hebrew mysticism, you need to touch your lips to the original words themselves. The key word describing the spiritual work in the ...
February 26-March 1, 2009 – Kristen Ulmer’s Ski to Live Weekend – with guest Marc Gafni
Marc Gafni will be delivering several teachings at the world famous Ski To Live clinics of Kristen Ulmer. Kristen Ulmer, voted for twelve years running the best woman skier in the world, is a pioneer in the extreme sports movement. She currently stud ...
A Scene from Israel: The Holiday of Seeing: Part Three
cont’d from last two blogs but you can just step in here. Welcome. Dedicated to my son and all the young boys masquerading as soldiers who were left with no choice but to go to war yesterday. This Holidays of Seeing, known as the Pilgrim festiv ...
What Does it Mean to be a Spiritual Master: Part Two: Marc Gafni
It is the human being becoming a channel for love that one is invited to see and to imitate when one watches the priest give a blessing. It is in this sense that the ancient texts write — “When the priest gives a blessing the Shehina dwells b ...
What Does It Mean to Be a Spiritual Master: Marc Gafni
posted by Marc Gafni’s assistant Here we come to the essence of the whole Temple archetype. The priest’s most important job was to give blessings. The specific language employed by the sources to describe the priestly vocation is actually to ...
The Textualization of Eros or the Erotics of Text: Marc Gafni
To See These Three… The major players in the Temple drama were the priests. In truth, the self perception of the Kabbalists is that they are the inheritors of the spiritual work of the priests. Just as the Priests would gaze at God so the Kabbalist ...
Pornography: The Exile of the Shekinah: A scholarly note for those readers who Care about such things: Marc Gafni
My interpretation of the Tantric nature of seeing and its transmutation into loving – in the last set of blogs – derives from three primary sources in my study. First — a reading of primary sources — both biblical and mystical — in ...
The Sexual Gaze: Objectify Me… Now! Subjectify Me… Now!: Marc Gafni
The essence of the Holy of Holies: to become a lover and a seer. To love is to become God’s verb. To love is to see with God’s eyes. The end is rooted in the beginning, and the beginning is rooted in the end. We return to the Temple and the cheru ...
Who is Seeing Who: Part Two: Marc Gafni
Perceived upon entry! To be ‘seen before God.’ The word “before” as we have seen derives from the same root as face and inside. So the Pilgrim comes to experience himself as on the ‘inside of God’s face.” In the ecstasy of the f ...
Who Is Seeing Who: Part One: Marc Gafni
The End is in the Beginning and The Beginning is in the End We return now, full circle to the Cherubic mystery of love. When the pilgrims came to the Temple in Jerusalem three times a year, the biblical verse tells us that they came to “see and be ...
Perception – Love- Intention – Creation: Marc Gafni
Aboriginal traditions in Australia, the Hebrew mystics, Quantum Physics, a modern travel writer and the biblical myth – in the the last three or four blogs …. all come together and and remind us of the powerful spiritual truth; Love=Perce ...