Yom Kippur is the day of Yichud. Complete Unification. Let the blog below manifest Yichud. May we all be sealed in the book of life. In Luriannic myth, these are the 288 sparks of light that remained in the shattered vessels of the Kings after they d ...
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Dostoyevsky’s Dad: Marc Gafni
Freud said after reading Dostoyevsky, “Here, psychoanalysis must lay down its arms,” so overwhelmed was he by the sublime and erotic power of that which he read. And yet Freud, unable to resist, soon after returns to Dostoyevsky trying to locate ...
Freud and Mother’s Love: Marc Gafni
Certainly Freud was important in moving us to look at ourselves and pay attention to our inner lives. Particular at the pranic, emotional sexual, second chakra level of existence. He made a huge contribution here both to understanding and to well bei ...
Freud and Kabbalah: cont’d: Marc Gafni
continued from yesterday and the day before blogs but you can jump in here if you are just joining us. Welcome! Freud of course would have had the falafel king on the couch in no time. Freud’s understandings, which have so colored our own unconscio ...
Is it all Sex or All Eros?: Freud vs. Kabbalah
Freud of course would have had the falafel king on the couch in no time. Freud’s understandings, which have so colored our own unconscious view of the word, are the precise opposite of the secret of the cherubs. For Freud everything is a metaphor f ...
An Erotic Hero: The Falafel Priest
An Erotic Hero, the Falafel Priest Once — and I will never forget it – I unexpectedly stepped into the Holy of Holies at a falafal stand. We were returning from visiting my sons Eytan and Yair in summer camp near the town of Hadera in Israel. ...
Kiss and Cry: Marc Gafni [
One of the most poignant moments of the Hebrew wedding is the mythic rite of the groom’s placing of a veil over the face of the bride. In doing this, he recognizes that so much of her is still hidden from him and he commits his life to coming to kn ...
Yom Kippur and Eros: Marc Gafni
post two in series of Yom Kippur Posts: Interestingly enough, Yom Kippur, along with Tu’be’Av, the fifteenth of Av, which is a summertime Holiday of Love, is thought of by the Talmud as the day for erotic matchmaking: “Rabban Shimon ben Gamliei ...
On Yom Kippur
posted by Gafni assistant: This is the first in a series of Yom Kippur posts that Marc Gafni has prepared. Yom Kippur -day of atonement – at -one- ment is the ultimate day of eros in hebrew wisdom. Yom Kippur – speaks to every human being ...
Keep your heart open even when you are hurt: Marc Gafni
In Hebrew tradition a wedding is meant to expand and not narrow the circle of Eros. If the through the lover each is able to love the world more then the it is considered a good marriage. If the result of their love is a narrowing in which the world ...
Falling in Love is all to often Selfish: Marc Gafni
Rumi knowingly instructs us: Let the beauty that we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the Ground. So too with falling in love. Just as it is non-erotic for art to exist only in a museum, so too it is non-erotic for love ...
It’s All Art: Marc Gafni
It’s All Art! Whenever we keep eros confined to one narrow frame of being while de-eroticzing the rest of the picture — the Shechina remains in exile. Sex is only one of the places where we exile the erotic. There is a wonderful Balinese saying w ...
More on the sources of Tantra: Marc Gafni
It is beyond the scope of these blogs work to fully document the historical path of Hebrew Tantra. Suffice it to say that on a scholarly level Eliade already provides the Alexandrian link between Indian Tantra and the Western mysteries which took roo ...
Hebrew Tantra and Hindu Tantra: Marc Gafni
So our return to Hebrew tantra is a return to a fountain from which all these great wisdoms sprang. There are, however, two enormous differences between Hebrew and Hindu tantra in their classical sources. In much of Hindu tantra it is the avoidance o ...