Back To Back — The Palace of Love Now let’s apply what we have talked about so far, to how we understand falling in love and the love choices it moves us to make. Lurianic mysticism teaches that we have a roshem, an image or imago in Jungian term ...
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Falling in Love: Part Sixteen: Marc Gafni
So picking up from yesterday. There are three reasons for this essential pattern of the spirit rooted in the sexual and expressed so powerfully in love and Eros. One: Kabbalists begin from the clarity of personal experience. We do not work to fall in ...
Sex, Spirit, & Shadow, Moscow, Russia, October 9-11, 2009, with Dr. Marc Gafni and Diane Musho Hamilton Sensei
Sex, Spirit, & Shadow, Moscow, Russia, October 9-11, 2009, with Dr. Marc Gafni and Diane Musho Hamilton Sensei Sex, Spirit, & Shadow: The Three S’s of Dynamic and Personal Evolution with Diane Musho Hamilton and Marc Gafni October 9-11, ...
The Credo of Evolutionary Kabbalah and a Teaching of Abraham Kuk on “Evolutionary Spirituality”
by Marc Gafni Evolutionary Kabbalah means that all of reality is evolving. It means that from a non-dual perspective there is no separation between the divine and all of reality. This means that all levels of reality, from matter to body to mind to s ...
The Feast of Tabernacles {Sukkot} and Eros: Marc Gafni
advanced post for those initiated into kabbalah: The Baal Haleshem says explicitly that the cherubs are Ze’ir Anpin {the masculine expression of the divine} and Nukva {the feminine manifestation of the divine} (Sha’arei Haleshem, section 1:17; se ...
Notes from a Lover On the Pain of Eros
by Marc Gafni and Diane Musho Hamilton I have written before of the beauty of Eros–the divine life force–and how our sexuality models the greater movement of Eros in our lives. By Eros, I mean the fullness of presence, inner space, participating ...
Kosmic Love Affair: Marc Gafni
Cosmic love affair A young man walks in on Master Baruch and his wife in the midst of a heated argument. Startled, he quickly turns away. Baruch responds with a wink, ‘You don’t understand. You have just witnessed a discussion between God and the ...
Yichud=Eros
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 ...
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 ...
The Wisdom of Solomon: An Esoteric Mystery
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 ...
The exile of the Shekinah is the exile of the Erotic into the Sexual: Marc Gafni
In this blog we want to provide some deep context in sources of hebrew wisdom for this core idea that that the exile of the shekinah is in one expression, the exile of the erotic into the sexual. This is important so follow closely my friends. {This ...
A note about the term Kabbalistic Tantra or Hebrew Tantra: Marc Gafni
The texts of the tantric system are part of the Hindu Agama texts. Tantra in it’s original meaning is said by some scholars to mean a weaving, web or loom. It encompasses both a dual and non dual tradition with many and varied practices. It is ...
Pseudo Eros and Gossip: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com Kabbalah scholars point out that one of the defining characteristic of the Zohar mystics is that illumination happened not in solitary retreat but in groups engaged in sac ...
The motivation for Gossip: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com share comments on info@marcgafni.com Kabbalah scholars point out that one of the defining characteristic of the Zohar mystics is that illumination happened not in solitary retreat but in groups engaged in sacred con ...