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Integral Judaism and the Evolution of Tears

January 28, 2008 · Leave a Comment

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 that reason it appears in all of these sections of our website. The first draft [...]

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Enlightenment

January 28, 2008 · Leave a Comment

by Marc Gafni The basic teaching that I was sharing in 2005 and 2006 was that Torah is an enlightenment teaching. Hebrew wisdom is an ENLIGHTENMENT teaching. HEBREW WISDOM IS A LIBERATION TEACHING. Particularly I taught and teach and will teach that Hebrew wisdom teaching is not only about Enlightenment but also about what I [...]

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Author’s Preface to A Certain Spirit

January 27, 2008 · 3 Comments

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 core nature of religion. It moves from the old model [...]

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An Offering of Words: MANIC SCREAMING

January 27, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Marc Gafni: We should all make spiritual talk Simple today: God is trying to sell you something, But you don’t want to buy, That is what your suffering is: Your fantastic haggling, Your Manic screaming over the price

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The Path of Rage

January 27, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Tikkun: To repair, to heal, to fix by Marc Gafni 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 of questions. The fact that the human being can challenge and that God accepts the human [...]

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Book Outline – Tape Transcript 2

January 21, 2008 · Leave a Comment

MPI MEDIA PRODUCTIONS INTERNATIONAL from Marc Gafni MAN: The story in the Talmud, which is about the path of yearning … about following my longing. About a little boy or a young man who reaches bar mitzvah, or confirmation, and he receives all sorts of presents, none of them particularly appropriate, he’s got to write [...]

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Book Outline – Tape Transcript 1

January 21, 2008 · Leave a Comment

MPI MEDIA PRODUCTIONS INTERNATIONAL from Marc Gafni (OFF MIKE) MAN: Hope you all are well and wonderful and sweet flowing energy in your world. Bill, it was a pleasure meeting you. Bob, really a great pleasure. You are going to be my rebbe, my master in the art of television world. It’s more than television [...]

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Pathology Article #2

January 20, 2008 · Leave a Comment

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 own disease, this checks all his [...]

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The Fifth Gate: Completing the Circle

January 20, 2008 · Leave a Comment

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 elders answered, “We are (witnesses). May the [...]

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The Fourth Gate: Reincarnations

January 20, 2008 · 4 Comments

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 spiritual path only in order to liberate those sacred sparks that [...]

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The Third Gate: Upper Leah and the Women of “Binah”

January 20, 2008 · Leave a Comment

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 bringing her shadow image – Lillith – back into [...]

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The Second Gate: Leah is Lillith

January 18, 2008 · 1 Comment

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 not even a human being, but a foul (though very [...]

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Purim and the Carnival of Alternative Selves

January 13, 2008 · Leave a Comment

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 personal stories. The trick is to listen deeply and transform what may appear [...]

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

January 13, 2008 · Leave a Comment

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 anthropologist. For the scholar, the Law is the [...]

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Passover Seder; Remembering the Future

January 13, 2008 · Leave a Comment

by Marc Gafni The Seder is a mystical magical night. It is the Jewish Fourth of July commemorating the annivarsary of our freedom, celebrating the liberation and birth of our nation. But it is ever so much more than that. It is the night when parents give their children the gift of identity. Via this [...]

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