posted by r. Gafni Assistant On the hidden teachings of the Wisdom of Solomon: R. Simha Bunim of Pshischa in Kol Simha, quoted in Kol Mevaser on I Kings 11:6: “King Solomon desired to heal evil, that is, that evil be integrated in good. This is why ...
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Tantric Pilgrims: Marc Gafni
posted by Marc Gafni assistant: Marc away for Holiday. The Tantric Pilgrims First, to everyone reading, thanks to my assistant for posting and Shanah Tova U-Metuka; a good and sweet year for everyone. Three times a year pilgrims would gather in Jerus ...
A Beautiful New Year it Should Be: Marc Gafni
Today is the even of the Jewish New Year. I am about to call my two sons, my father and mother. I am about to call my family who are my friends, students and colleagues to wish everyone a shanah tovah. A good year it should be. It will be. I am sitti ...
I am so happy. I am so sad. I am: Marc Gafni
Today is the even of the Jewish New Year. I am about to call my two sons, my father and mother. I am about to call my family who are my friends, students and colleagues to wish everyone a shanah tovah. A good year it should be. It will be. I am sitti ...
Song of Songs: Marc Gafni
Now the moralist will be quick to say, “Yes, he is right! Sex isn’t the answer!” Yet, I for one, as teacher and a human being, do not go with the moralists. That is precisely the point of the secret of the cherubs. Sex is the answer. The secret ...
The Split of Sex and Eros: Marc Gafni
One of most famous images of the Shechina in exile laced throughout the Zohar is the prostitute. The problem with prostitution is not primarily an ethical problem. Ethical prostitutes can have far more moral decency then the ostensible pillars of the ...
Healing the Split: Marc Gafni
this post was sent to me by R. Marc on friday afternoon. Healing the Split The Shechina is exiled whenever sex and eros are split. Jake, age 37, works as a claims adjuster in an insurance firm. Often he works well into the night. He feels oppressed b ...
Stolen Waters are Sweet ReLoaded: Marc Gafni
ps. on yesterdays blogs… The goal is to commit adultery with your wife. I know literally tens of spiritual teachers who have at one time or another not succeeded in this goal. I know tens of spiritual teachers – those very same ones ̵ ...
Stolen Waters are Sweet: Marc Gafni
“Drink the water of your own cistern, and running water of your own well. So will your spring be prolific outside, and streams of water will flow in the streets. They will be yours alone, and strangers will have no place in your intimacy. Your sour ...
Stolen Waters are Sweet: Marc Gafni
The fall of the Temple is the mythic expression of the exile of the erotic, not only into the sexual, but specifically into boundary-breaking sexuality. Listen in on a strange and wonderfully mythic talmudic discussion! A reposting from yesterday in ...
Stolen Waters are Sweet: Marc Gafni
The fall of the Temple is the mythic expression of the exile of the erotic, not only into the sexual, but specifically into boundary-breaking sexuality102. Listen in on a strange and wonderfully mythic Talmudic discussion! A man is struck by the beau ...
Exile within Exile: Commentary on Yesterday’s Blog: Marc Gafni
See above, a couple of blogs back, where we showed how the Shehina in Exile is Herself in an additional exile, that of the “maidservant”. I would only add here that the Tiqunei Zohar presents another unusual idea — that Kudsha Brih Hu, the Divi ...
Searching for Eros in All the Wrong Places: Marc Gafni
Exile Within an Exile In the language of kabbalists, we are now in an exile within an exile101. The first exile of the Shechina is the exile of the erotic into the sexual. The second is the exile of the erotic within the sexual itself. The erotic is ...
The Fall of Eros: Marc Gafni
However we cannot live in non erotic world. So unconsciously we seek compensation. We look to get our erotic fix in the sexual. But this doesn’t work either. For when you de-eroticize all of the world except sex, then the sexual collapses as well. ...
Sexuality collapses under the Weight of an Impossible Demand: Marc Gafni
Sex – and this is the secret of the cherubs – is one of our great spiritual guides. What we will do in the rest of these blogs over the coming year, is to outline in every set of blogs a particular quality of being which is modeled in the ...