A Shamanic Story Story of the Snuff Box The story of the holy snuff box. Here is the story as I heard it. Everybody knows that Holy Beggars hold the world together. Thus would one modern master introduce the following sacred story. Never, never pass by a holy beggar, and they are all holy. Walk [...]
I Just Want To Say It Again: Let us Create a Circle of Yes: Marc Gafni
April 26, 2009 · 4 Comments
Dedicated to Lady Mary as she enters retreat… This is yesterday’s post; and I am posting it again and again and again …all week…. I ask YOU, with all my heart – and the heart of all being – to read it – take it in – breathe it live it .. It is so [...]
Say Yes: Give Yourself in Love: Marc Gafni
April 25, 2009 · Leave a Comment
posted by Marc Gafni assistant My heart is open. YES YES YES YES YES YES YES!! YES! I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of a lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!” ~Oriah Mountain Dreamer It was to [...]
Giving in Love: Part Nineteen: Marc Gafni
April 22, 2009 · 5 Comments
Give To Them a Story For those, who even after the last few blogs, are still unsatisfied and find it too painful to give in an undiscriminating way, I ask a simple question: how would you like to be a person asking for money on the street? Much as we honor the holy beggar, it [...]
Giving in Love: Part Eighteen: Marc Gafni
April 20, 2009 · 1 Comment
marc gafni On Being Charitable and Being Choosy… “One Second,” I say before my tourist friend can run away, “Let me tell you a story of the Great Master Zusia of Onipol.” Zusia had a disciple who would visit him occasionally and donate funds towards his support. The disciple became very wealthy. At some point, [...]
Giving in Love: Part Seventeen: Marc Gafni
April 19, 2009 · 1 Comment
There is a teaching that if you have a hundred different coins, you should give them to a hundred different people. Even though the money will have little real life impact on the recipient’s economic reality, the very act of giving to every hand you meet could have real life impact on your reality. Even [...]
Giving in Love: Marc Gafni: Part Sixteen
April 18, 2009 · 1 Comment
posted by Gafni assistant In Jerusalem, my home, the streets are filled with beggars, men and women who for all sorts of different reasons make their living by asking passers-by to “share the wealth.” In almost any other city in the world, these people would be deemed panhandlers and consigned to the bottom of the [...]
Giving in Love: Part Fifteen: Marc Gafni
April 16, 2009 · 2 Comments
marc gafni One of the most counter intuitive dictums of Hebrew wisdom reads “Greater is one who does out of command –(metzuveh) than one who does even though he is not commanded (Eino metzuveh).” Logically, the opposite should be true. Is not the one who does good because of his own moral feeling superior to [...]
Giving in Love: Marc Gafni: Part Fourteen
April 15, 2009 · 3 Comments
posted by Gafni assistant in honor of the sistas K and J Giving Saves from Death Remember the story from Soul Prints. It is the turn of the last century, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. A family of four live in a single-room flat on Ludlow Street. All day and into the night, [...]
Giving in Love: Part Thirteen: Eros and Agape: Marc Gafni:
April 14, 2009 · 2 Comments
marc gafni In the language of the Kabbalists, giving moves you from narrow constricted consciousness to mochim de gadlut, expanded consciousness. This is critical to understand because what it means is that agape and philia lead to Eros. In the Greek thought which formed much of Western consciousness, agape and philia represent what are generally [...]
Giving in Love: Part Twelve: Marc Gafni
April 12, 2009 · 2 Comments
Give First, Love Follows “Giving is not only the litmus test of love; it also leads to love,” teaches the holy Baal Shem Tov. “If you want to be loved, be a lover.” Raised on the love ethic of western capitalism, we view love as the necessary prerequisite for caring. Only when you love someone [...]
Why IS this night different then all other nights: Rabbi Marc
April 8, 2009 · 1 Comment
a Post in honor of Passover dedicated to holy brother k.d. why IS this night different then all other nights… The night of the biblical myth ritual is called “Leil Shimurim – A Night of Guarding/Watching.” Instead of being the audience of the spectacle of history and humanity, we turn into the actors of the [...]
Giving in Love: Part Ten: Marc Gafni
April 7, 2009 · Leave a Comment
In Every Detail One of the most gorgeous things about relationship is that it is so clear that every small act of attention and giving weaves another strand in the fabric of the relationship. There is no such thing as a casual favor or fruitless giving. Everything goes into the mix. Every act is deposited [...]
To be a Lover is to Give what is Hard for You to Give: Marc Gafni
April 6, 2009 · 1 Comment
This is for you babe…. To be a lover does not mean to grandstand and show people how kind and caring you are. “I love helpless stray cats and send food to the poor.” Although those are clearly two beautiful things to do. The Deep Dharma Torah is like this: Everyone has a particular and [...]
Giving in Love: Part Ten: Marc Gafni
April 4, 2009 · 1 Comment
posted by Dr Marc Gafni asst. I remember one evening when my second son, Yair, first asked me for a new bicycle that I could not afford. It hurt. I thought about it all night. Had I pursued other directions in life, I would be able to easily provide him with what he wanted. Although [...]
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