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 ...

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 Jerus ...

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 ...

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 b ...

“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 sour ...

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 ...

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 beau ...

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 Divi ...