marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com The White Spaces We are on a journey to Love. For as the Zohar writes ‘All the Paths (Shvilin) lead to the Temple of love’. Wherever you are, wherever you are standing or kneeling or crouching – the place where you are is on your [...]
Eros and Holiness: White Fire on Black Fire: A Journey of Love: Marc Gafni:
July 31, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Eros and Holiness: The Great Dancer: Marc Gafni
July 31, 2008 · Leave a Comment
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com side bar personal note before body of post: I am not a great dancer:) Grew up in Yeshiva, Orthodox Jewish School where dancing was kind of primitive even if wild and ecstatic. But the ability to trust the movement of the body in dance is [...]
Eros and Holiness: The Dancing Master: Part Sixteen: Marc Gafni
July 30, 2008 · Leave a Comment
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share your comments on info@marcgafni.com The Dancing Master There is a wonderful story of Eros and love which I told my students at a special Kabbalistic ceremony the day before Cary and I were married. It is a story which hints at many of the truths we will play [...]
Eros and Holiness: Part Fifteen: A Better Way to Dance: Marc Gafni:
July 30, 2008 · Leave a Comment
marc gafni published on marcgafni please share comments on info@marcgafni.com The Dancing Master A-Void-Dance Our lives are overflowing with The Void. You know the void. The big hole you feel inside. Sometimes it has hurt so much you can barely move. Usually it is a dull and throbbing pain. The background noise of most lives. [...]
Enlightenment and Liberation: Part Two:Marc Gafni
July 29, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Enlightenment and Liberation: Post Two: Marc Gafni Posted on marcgafni.com Please share comments at info@marcgafni.com So what is enlightenment? The answer of course is that anyone and everyone makes up there own definition…to such an extent that the word loses all meaning. I will share with you how I understand enlightenment based on the teachings [...]
Eros and Holiness: Part Fourteen: Life is a Recovery Movement: Marc Gafni:
July 28, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Life is a Recovery Movement: Marc Gafni Published on marcgafni.com Please share comments at info@marcgafni.com In reaching for the awakening of love we do well to bear in mind the teaching of mystical master Menachem Mendel of Kutz. Writing in eastern Europe in the first half of the nineteenth century, he offers an original deeply [...]
Eros and Holiness: Part Thirteen: To Love is to Know REALITY: Marc Gafni
July 28, 2008 · Leave a Comment
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com To Love is to Know REALITY. I wrote yesterday of the path of Love. {Eros and Holiness: Blog Post Nine; The Path of Love}. But what is love? Love is the inner reality of the universe when all else is stripped away. The lack of [...]
Eros and Holiness: On the Evolution of Love: Part Twelve: Marc Gafni:
July 27, 2008 · Leave a Comment
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com The footnotes shared in Eros and Holiness Post Eight require some explanation. First, they are intended primarily for advanced Students. Second, they are for the most part readable by anyone and will add a measure of depth to the seeker trying to enter and internalize [...]
Love or Die: A Politics of Love: Eros and Holiness: Part Eleven:
July 27, 2008 · Leave a Comment
marc gafni posted by marc gafni please share comments on info@marcgafni.com The Path of Love One cannot be told that life is worth while –one must experience the love of living first hand. Yet so few people have an unmediated sense of the adequacy, dignity and worth of their lives. The sense that is so [...]
Eros and Holiness: Part Ten: Marc Gafni
July 26, 2008 · Leave a Comment
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com I am a Kabbalist. And I am in pain. I am in pain because the world and therefore God is in pain1. To shatter the narrowness of my egocentricity and to feel both the pain and joy of world/God is essential to my spiritual quest. [...]
Possible Names for our New Library: Marc Gafni
July 25, 2008 · Leave a Comment
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com The Library or Series that we are suggesting might be called by any one of the following names: Next Steps Library {or Series} New Jewish Thought Library {or Series} Library of Evolutionary Kabbalah {or Series} Jewish Spirituality Library {or Series} Jewish Enlightenment Teachings Library {or [...]
A New Library: Marc Gafni
July 25, 2008 · Leave a Comment
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com Introduction: The following modest proposal was submitted to the board of the foundation as an outline of the library that the foundation would like to produce. The lead writer and teacher for this library is Mordechai Gafni who has been designated as the teacher in [...]
Letter to Friends that went out today sharing the website and my public perspective on where we are and where we need to go: Marc Gafni
July 24, 2008 · Leave a Comment
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com A Public Letter send to people on my mailing list inviting them to look at our website. Hi Friend, Shalom Chaver I hope this note finds you well. First a technical note: I do not have a formal mailing list – my technical assistant took [...]
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