The ability to know and not use the knowledge. To give while giving up control. The greatest expression of divine self-limitation allows us our ability to choose, even as we choose against God. As the Hebrew mystics write so beautifully, “even ...
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Daily Wisdom: To Greet With God’s Name
The world over, God’s name is evoked in greetings. The Spanish hello – ‘Olah’ – originated in Arab Spain from the term “O’Allah” — Allah of course being the Arab appellation of God. In Bavarian German they say ‘Gruss G ...
The Daily Wisdom: The Crying of Ishmael
God responds to the crying of Ishmael and not the crying of Hagar. Ishmael represents the crying of the baby with which all life begins. Why does the baby cry? The baby is hungry, the baby is afraid, the baby is vulnerable, the baby is lonely. The ba ...
Daily Wisdom: A Name with the power to Heal
Why do we respond to death not with an exclamation of comfort, but with the Kaddish — a seemingly theological statement, “Magnified and Exalted is his great name”? The answer holds one of the most sacred mysteries of love rooted in the se ...
Daily Wisdom: God accepts all offerings in love
“God accepts all offerings in love.” Your Unique Self Marc Gafni www.marcgafni.com ...
Daily Wisdom: Life’s House of Mirrors
In order to respond to the voices that call us to meaning we need to first experience the world as meaningful. Read more… ...
Yearning and Each Other’s Story
We yearn — in our deepest hearts — not to take but to give, and in that giving to deeply receive. Sexuality is the model for this, because there one single act contains within it both giving and receiving. The same is true, however, in all of our ...
Daily Wisdom Post: The Lover’s Art of Attention
So far, the two major qualities of the erotic lover have been perception and giving. ...
Daily Wisdom Post: Love is as Love Does
Loving and giving are inextricably bound up. The great medieval philosopher Maimonides teaches that to love God is to know the divine in both world and self. ...
Daily Wisdom Post: Transcendence & the Gradual Widening of Self
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. ...
Daily Wisdom Post: You-nified
As we have said, the model for being an erotic lover – in all facets of our existence – is the sexual. ...
Daily Wisdom Post: In Ecstacy
The perception of falling in love is but one expression, however of a broader kind, of perception. ...
Daily Wisdom Post: Arousal from Above
Love is almost always proceeded by an act of will. We do not fall in love unless we decide to fall in love. ...
Daily Wisdom Post: The Stones Will Sparkle
Now let me share with you something truly beautiful. It is a sort of Hebrew mystic expansion of Traherne’s moment of rapture. It is one of my favorite stories. ...
Daily Wisdom Post: Perception is Love
The Kabbalists were often referred to as Mistaklim or Chozim, roughly translated as the Lookers or Seers. ...