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Marc Gafni: Tears of Angels: Marc Gafni

Posted on: January 21st, 2009 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

New Post begins in the middle of post below … I reposted some of the last two days so that you have the whole picture go to asterisk below if you want to only read today’s post. To retell Abraham’s tale So let us now help Isaac let go o ...

Tears of Angels: Part Ten: Marc Gafni

Posted on: January 19th, 2009 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

First a recap of weekend blog torah..and then a really big post for today… :) To retell Abraham’s tale So let us now help Isaac let go of his anger towards Abraham by telling another small piece of the Abraham story. We need to return to the ...

Tears of Angels: Part Nine: Marc Gafni

Posted on: January 17th, 2009 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

posted by Dr. Marc Gafni assistant The second way for Isaac and the rest of us to let go of anger at our parents is to have the profound epiphany/realization that our parents had parents too. Mom had a mom and dad and so did Dad. What a thought! It i ...

Tears of Angels: Part Eight: The Hoffman Process: Marc Gafni

Posted on: January 16th, 2009 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

Dad Had a Dad There are two simple ways to let go of anger at parents and become a lover. The first is to have children and to need to give them blessing. That is the Isaac story that we found by following the love word ra’ah through part of its bi ...

Tears of Angels: Part Seven: The Hoffman Process: Marc Gafni

Posted on: January 15th, 2009 by Marc Gafni 3 Comments

Dedicated to the Hoffman Process: Anger or Intimacy? Now if you were Isaac, you might be pretty mad at Abraham for creating such complexity and even pain in your life. And it’s true that we are part of a generation with an enormous amount of anger ...

Tears of Angels: Part Six: Marc Gafni

Posted on: January 14th, 2009 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

Love is perception. Isaac cannot see — his perception is blurred. We can do many things in life with our love faculty of perception impaired. We can build a business, partner with a reasonable degree of success and navigate much of life successfull ...

Tears of Angels: Part Five: Marc Gafni

Posted on: January 13th, 2009 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

Unblocking the wells, unbottling the tears, can be a dangerous task. The question is, has Isaac left his genie bottled up too long? When the waters break forth, will they turn to deluge or blessing? The fairy tale talks of the danger of waiting too l ...

Tears of Angels: Part Four: Of Genie Tales and Stopped Up Wells: Marc Gafni

Posted on: January 12th, 2009 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

To Unstop the Wells (Stopped up Wells, Bottled up Genies) With Isaac, as with most of us, the situation is more complex. Isaac leaves Mount Moriah — the scene of his childhood trauma — and does not look back. Biblical text records that Abraham re ...

Tears of Angels: Part Three: Marc Gafni

Posted on: January 11th, 2009 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

Trauma that needs to be cried AND THEN MOVE ON! When is it vital to connect deeply with your tears of angels and when is it better to just let them go? Get on the Bus This question came into bold and somewhat comical relief for me one day some years ...

Tears of Angels: Part Two: Marc Gafni

Posted on: January 11th, 2009 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

The way that deepening happens in Biblical myth study is almost always by posing a question. Sometimes even a seemingly technical or structural question can fling the door open to the next layer of meaning. So it is in this discussion. ”Why is it,â ...

Big Heart: Tears of Angels: Part One: Marc Gafni

Posted on: January 9th, 2009 by Marc Gafni 3 Comments

Blessings and open heart to you holy friends. I want to share this deep teaching from the inside of the inside with you in several parts, maybe seven or eight different installments. May it re-open all of our hearts, for who among us has not closed o ...