by Dr. Marc Gafni >>> Download the Paper HERE <<< Part 1 The Jewish mandate which demands that the human being enter into partnership with God, in the task of perfecting the world, emerges, paradoxically, not out of answers but out ...
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The Fifth Gate: Completing the Circle
Chapter 21: Ruth, the Moabite from the book by Ohad Ezrachi and Marc Gafni When Boaz decides to marry Ruth, the Moabite, the elders of Bethlehem, who sit by the gates of the city, bless him with an exceptional blessing: All the people at the gate and ...
The Fourth Gate: Reincarnations
Chapter 16: Reincarnation as a Sifting of Good and Evil from the book by Ohad Ezrachi and Marc Gafni According to Lurianic Kabbalah, the holy sparks that exist inside every one of us are almost invisible to the naked eye. One ventures upon the spirit ...
The Third Gate: Upper Leah and the Women of “Binah”
Chapter 10: Leah, The Scholarly Woman from the book by Ohad Ezrachi and Marc Gafni In this gate we will look at how the Ari defines the unique nature of partzuf Leah. We will observe how, by sanctifying the image of partzuf Leah, the Ari facilitated ...
The Second Gate: Leah is Lillith
Chapter 5: Biblical Figures Unlock the Divine from the book by Ohad Ezrachi and Marc Gafni Those who see Lillith as the first feminist are following in the footsteps of the Ari. For, in the writings of the Kabbalists who preceded the Ari, Lillith is ...
Purim and the Carnival of Alternative Selves
by Marc Gafni Things are rarely what they seem, Skim milk masquerades as Cream –W. S. Gilbert, H.M.S. Pinafore According to the Kabbalah, Purim is an explosive time of paradigm shift and radical change. We all have a Purim dimension to our pers ...
The First Gate: Why Lillith?
The following is a translation of the Hebrew Book, Lillith; A Re-Reading of Feminine Shadow, by Ohad Ezrahi and Marc Gafni, published in 2005. In regard to the nature of this partnership, see the note below. Ohad has written a note about this on his ...