by Marc Gafni This article is the second part of an article that appears below, The Seduction of Tears and the Hagar Complex. The reader is advised to read that teaching first and only then return to this teaching. The following introduction outlines ...
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What is Original in our Book on Lilith?
On the Authorship of the Book Lilith The first part of this post addresses the content and ideas in the Lilith book. The second part of this post addresses the apology letter by Ohad in a public posting on this website, regarding the authorship of th ...
Selected Published Essays
Click the links to read Marc Gafni’s essays Tikkun March-April 2001 Tikkun March-April 2003 Best Jewish Writing 2003 Learning in Jerusalem Parabola Summer 2006 ...
The Tale of the Harlot by the Sea
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 ...
Sexually Incorrect
Introduction to Sexually Incorrect by Marc Gafni The following article is still under construction. It is an expanded version of the article Spiritually Incorrect found in that section of this website. This article raises some initial questions in re ...
Evolutionary Spirituality
by Marc Gafni Thirty years ago I became seriously interested in the writing of Abraham Kuk. Kuk was a great Kabbalist and revolutionary thinker, who lived a paradoxically and often beautiful conservative lifestyle. In my recent work on Mordechai Lain ...
Sex, Ethics and Power
An Introduction by Marc Gafni I am preparing the website. I have just jotted down a quick introduction to the major article in the Sex, Ethics and Power section of this website. Please do not regard this introduction or even the essay itself as a pol ...
The Judah Moment
by Marc Gafni Back in 1893 there was a reading contest in London. People gathered to hear Shakespearean actors read Psalm 23, “The Lord is My Shepherd,” competing for the substantial prize to be awarded for the best recitation. As the eve ...
Author’s Preface to A Certain Spirit
The following articles are from the second book Marc Gafni published in 2000 on the topic Certainty and Uncertainty. The book is called Vadai in Hebrew and A Certain Spirit in English. The core theme of the book on certainty is a re-understanding of ...
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 ...