An Erotic Hero, the Falafel Priest Once — and I will never forget it – I unexpectedly stepped into the Holy of Holies at a falafal stand. We were returning from visiting my sons Eytan and Yair in summer camp near the town of Hadera in Israel. ...

One of the most poignant moments of the Hebrew wedding is the mythic rite of the groom’s placing of a veil over the face of the bride. In doing this, he recognizes that so much of her is still hidden from him and he commits his life to coming to kn ...

post two in series of Yom Kippur Posts: Interestingly enough, Yom Kippur, along with Tu’be’Av, the fifteenth of Av, which is a summertime Holiday of Love, is thought of by the Talmud as the day for erotic matchmaking: “Rabban Shimon ben Gamliei ...

In Hebrew tradition a wedding is meant to expand and not narrow the circle of Eros. If the through the lover each is able to love the world more then the it is considered a good marriage. If the result of their love is a narrowing in which the world ...

Rumi knowingly instructs us: Let the beauty that we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the Ground. So too with falling in love. Just as it is non-erotic for art to exist only in a museum, so too it is non-erotic for love ...

It’s All Art! Whenever we keep eros confined to one narrow frame of being while de-eroticzing the rest of the picture — the Shechina remains in exile. Sex is only one of the places where we exile the erotic. There is a wonderful Balinese saying w ...

It is beyond the scope of these blogs work to fully document the historical path of Hebrew Tantra. Suffice it to say that on a scholarly level Eliade already provides the Alexandrian link between Indian Tantra and the Western mysteries which took roo ...

So our return to Hebrew tantra is a return to a fountain from which all these great wisdoms sprang. There are, however, two enormous differences between Hebrew and Hindu tantra in their classical sources. In much of Hindu tantra it is the avoidance o ...