posted by Marc Gafni assistant: Marc away for Holiday. The Tantric Pilgrims First, to everyone reading, thanks to my assistant for posting and Shanah Tova U-Metuka; a good and sweet year for everyone. Three times a year pilgrims would gather in Jerusalem from all over the land of Israel. These gatherings were called the Holidays [...]

Now the moralist will be quick to say, “Yes, he is right! Sex isn’t the answer!” Yet, I for one, as teacher and a human being, do not go with the moralists. That is precisely the point of the secret of the cherubs. Sex is the answer. The secret of the cherubs was an explicit [...]

this post was sent to me by R. Marc on friday afternoon. Healing the Split The Shechina is exiled whenever sex and eros are split. Jake, age 37, works as a claims adjuster in an insurance firm. Often he works well into the night. He feels oppressed by the routine and drabness of his work. [...]

“Drink the water of your own cistern, and running water of your own well. So will your spring be prolific outside, and streams of water will flow in the streets. They will be yours alone, and strangers will have no place in your intimacy. Your source will be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of [...]

The fall of the Temple is the mythic expression of the exile of the erotic, not only into the sexual, but specifically into boundary-breaking sexuality. Listen in on a strange and wonderfully mythic talmudic discussion! A reposting from yesterday in in order to make the two posts from today understandable:) A man is struck by [...]

The fall of the Temple is the mythic expression of the exile of the erotic, not only into the sexual, but specifically into boundary-breaking sexuality102. Listen in on a strange and wonderfully mythic Talmudic discussion! A man is struck by the beauty of a particular woman. His heart becomes sick. He falls deathly ill. Doctors [...]

See above, a couple of blogs back, where we showed how the Shehina in Exile is Herself in an additional exile, that of the “maidservant”. I would only add here that the Tiqunei Zohar presents another unusual idea – that Kudsha Brih Hu, the Divine masculine Himself, when He is not unified with Shehina – [...]

Exile Within an Exile In the language of kabbalists, we are now in an exile within an exile101. The first exile of the Shechina is the exile of the erotic into the sexual. The second is the exile of the erotic within the sexual itself. The erotic is exiled to a very limited domain within [...]

Sex – and this is the secret of the cherubs – is one of our great spiritual guides. What we will do in the rest of these blogs over the coming year, is to outline in every set of blogs a particular quality of being which is modeled in the sexual. These are the essential [...]