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Archive for October, 2008
“The Evolution of Love” – Marc Gafni and Sally Kempton
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Want to hear and feel something gorgeous; Read This: Marc Gafni
Akiva teaches the people two great teachings which are really one. First, he points to the Hebrew words for man and woman — I-Y-SH (×יש) and I-SH-A ×שה)). They are made up of two sets of letters. The first set of common letters ...
The Feast of Tabernacles {Sukkot} and Eros: Marc Gafni
advanced post for those initiated into kabbalah: The Baal Haleshem says explicitly that the cherubs are Ze’ir Anpin {the masculine expression of the divine} and Nukva {the feminine manifestation of the divine} (Sha’arei Haleshem, section 1:17; se ...
Mystic and Lover: Marc Gafni
On the first day of the Intermediate days of the Feast of Tabernacles {Chol HaMoed Sukkot} according to the calendar of the land of Israel. Akiva; Mystic and Lover In the Kabbalistic tradition, the hebrew sage, Akiva is the penultimate lover. He is a ...
Notes from a Lover On the Pain of Eros
by Marc Gafni and Diane Musho Hamilton I have written before of the beauty of Eros–the divine life force–and how our sexuality models the greater movement of Eros in our lives. By Eros, I mean the fullness of presence, inner space, participating ...
What is a committed relationship: Marc Gafni
On the first day of the Intermediate days of the Feast of Tabernacles {Chol HaMoed Sukkot} according to the calendar of the land of Israel. In the previous post I talked about a committed relationship. Someone wrote in immeidately and said what does ...
Sacred Union: Who are the Partners? : Marc Gafni [
posted by dr. gafni assistant To really touch at what the ancient mystics meant when they so deeply linked the sexual, the erotic and the sacred, we need to go one final step further. We mentioned earlier that the holy of holies is understood as the ...
A Culture of Complaint; The Hagar Complex and the Culture of Victimization
by Marc Gafni This article is the second part of an article that appears below, The Seduction of Tears and the Hagar Complex. The reader is advised to read that teaching first and only then return to this teaching. The following introduction outlines ...
Kosmic Love Affair: Marc Gafni
Cosmic love affair A young man walks in on Master Baruch and his wife in the midst of a heated argument. Startled, he quickly turns away. Baruch responds with a wink, ‘You don’t understand. You have just witnessed a discussion between God and the ...
Mirrors of Desire and Wounded Healers? Part Three: Marc Gafni
Later, in a great epilogue to the story, the myth depicts Moses in the desert building the tabernacle. The tabernacle is essentially the first temple, replete with the ark, cherubs and holy of holies. Everyone is to bring his or her own special contr ...
Mirrors of Desire; part two: Marc Gafni
cont’d The Hebrew word for decree which I have inserted in the parentheses in the text is But this enslaved individual, whom we moderns recognize so well, has lost touch with the erotics of desire. The wonder of being on the inside — the sens ...
Mirrors of Desire: Marc Gafni
This blog seeks to unpack the beautiful text we cited in this mornings post. The myth understands that the erotics of desire is the dynamic that arouses the impulse to freedom and human dignity. Slavery is about the deadening of Eros and desire. The ...
The Politics of Repression, part two: Marc Gafni
Islamic fundamentalism was not the first to attempt at the repression of liberty through the crushing of the erotic and the sexual. There is an absolutely wonderful ancient tradition about eros and liberty. It describes how the Hebrew slaves managed ...
The Politics of Repression: Marc Gafni
Whenever we divorce sex from the overarching frameworks of eros we vastly diminish its power. If we either strip it of eros or alternatively make it the exclusive focus of our erotic desire then we exile the Shechina. The result is a crisis of emptin ...