The Spiritual Practice of Torah Study: Marc Gafni

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The Spiritual Practice of Torah Study: Marc Gafni

Posted on: October 20th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

posted by Gafni assistant. More then any other spiritual art, study has been my life long spiritual practice. The Study of Torah. The study of Reality. Study is not the accumulation of information. It is rather – the suspension of ego and small ...

The Feast of Tabernacles {Sukkot} and Eros: Marc Gafni

Posted on: October 15th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

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 ...

Passover and Victim Consciousness מהו הרעיון העצמתי ביותר שיש לחג הפסח לתרום לחברה המערבית המודרנית? זהו הנושא של הטור שלנו השבוע

Posted on: June 27th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

מהו הרעיון העצמתי ביותר שיש לחג הפסח לתרום לחברה המערבית המודרנית? זהו הנושא של הטור שלנו השבוע. שאלו מישהו – מדוע אתה עונה לטלפון? הוא בד� ...

The Seduction of Tears and Victimization

Posted on: April 7th, 2008 by jeff No Comments

On Biblical Consciousness, Victimization and Hagar by Marc Gafni An excerpt from a forthcoming book, that was written in 2005 and 2006. This article, The Seduction of Tears and the Hagar Complex, and the Culture of Complaint article, which is actuall ...

The Tale of the Harlot by the Sea

Posted on: April 7th, 2008 by jeff No Comments

This article is an essay published in Marc Gafni’s English language book The Mystery of Love, and discussed in his audio series, On the Erotic and the Holy. In recent study, Marc Gafni has added and revised this article. In Talmudic Textual Koa ...

On Pagans and Prophets – On the Erotic and the Ethical מרדכי גפני

Posted on: February 27th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

This article only appears in hebrew. It appeared as the cover article in Tikkun Magazine in 2003. This article is incomplete. Some of the English has not yet been translated, not all the footnotes have been completed and some significant additions ha ...

A Poem, Two Offerings of Words to Honor the Holy Days

Posted on: February 20th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Pulling out the chair Beneath your mind And watching you fall upon God- What else is there For Hafiz to do That is any fun in this world! If someone sits with me And we talk about the Beloved, If I cannot give his heart comfort, If I cannot make him ...

Textual Koans/Talmudic Poem

Posted on: February 2nd, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

An Offering Of Words, of Beautiful Empty Pages, in Honor of the Text, and in favor of Spiritual Artists instead of Spiritual Teachers: What kind of work Can I do in this world? Who would be kind enough To hire an old holy Bum, One with a great reputa ...

Integral Judaism and the Evolution of Tears

Posted on: January 28th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

The following essay is the first of ten essays in a book called Integral Kabbalah and the Evolution of Tears. Copyright 2005 Marc Gafni. It touches on the Hebrew vision of Enlightenment, Evolutionary Kabbalah and Integral Judaism and Kabbalah. For th ...

Pathology Article #2

Posted on: January 20th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Presented by Marc Gafni Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. -Eric Hoffer 1954 As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his ...

Purim and the Carnival of Alternative Selves

Posted on: January 13th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

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 15th day of Shevat: “Tell them that I was here Before”

Posted on: January 13th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

by Marc Gafni On the fifteenth day of Shevat we celebrate the planting of trees. A day of myriad symbols and images–all holy and sweet. There are two ways to probe the essence of a holy day. One is as a scholar, the other as a spiritual anthropolog ...