Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com It was the middle of the 19th century . Heaven was joyous, hell was in an uproar, for it seems that one Hanoch the Shoemaker was about to usher in the Messiah. The Master ...
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Marc Gafni – Everyman’s Eros
Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com The eros experience is the province of mystics, artists and scholars. But not only. It awaits all of us in every arena of endeavor. Have you ever gone jogging? You get up ...
Marc Gafni – The Spell of Spelling — Panim
Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com The last post however was just for starters. Hold on, for the magic of language, the spell of spelling — has just begun. The Hebrew word for “inside,” panim, has two ...
KNOCKING FROM THE INSIDE – Marc Gafni
Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com In the Hebrew mystical tradition, language is not the mere random designation of sounds and letters in a particular pattern . For the mystic, words are vital portals to me ...
Marc Gafni – ON BETRAYAL
Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com The result of non-erotic living is always bad choices, betrayals and pain. I am not in the flow. I wind up always having to watch my back. I am on the outside — exiled f ...
Freeing My soul from the Trauma of Death in Life is the same process as freeing Souls from a Traumatic Death: Marc Gafni on the road from Warsaw to Lublin
Marc Gafni Posted on marcgafni.com Comments welcome on info@marcafni.com Today we were in Maidanek, Lublin and arrived for Shabbat in Krakow. About Maidanek Lublin after shabbot. A word before sundown. The purpose of our trip is to participate in an ...
Marc Gafni – TO SEE GOD IN YOUR FACE
There is a tale told of the Master Nahman Kossover. His mystical practice was to meditate on the divine name. It is said that when he taught he could actually see —reflected back to him- the divine name on the faces of his listeners. At some point ...
Marc Gafni – MERGING WITH THE MOUNTAIN
There is a wonderful Zen story about two mountain climbers. The first, old and slightly bent, slowly makes his way up the mountain. The second, young and in good form, bounds past him, racing confidently to the summit. In late afternoon they meet aga ...
Marc Gafni – The First face of Eros: On the Inside
The Interior Castle “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson The cherubs in the magical mystery of Temple myth were not stationary fixtures. No, these statues were exp ...
Eros Not Sex / or The Faces of Eros – Marc Gafni
Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com Eros has many expressions. Each expression is hinted at in the temple mysteries. There are four faces of eros which, when taken together, form the essence of the Shechina ...
Marc Gafni – RECLAIMING EROS BEYOND THE SEXUAL
Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com Just as the Eskimo has an ample supply of words to describe different types of snow, a society infused with love would likewise have a menagerie of terms for different typ ...
Marc Gafni – SHEKINAH, PRESENCE, POETRY, AND PASSION
by Marc Gafni The Shechina is the feminine Divine. Her name means Indwelling Presence, ‘the one who dwells in you.’ She is presence, poetry, passion. She is the sustaining God force which runs through and wombs the world. A living mythic presence ...
Marc Gafni – SEX IN THE TEMPLE?
Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com Sex in the temple!? Sexually entwined cherubs atop the ark, and a fiery feline sexual drive living in the Holy of Holies? What are these mythic images trying to express? A ...
Marc Gafni – myth, magic and mystery
Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com The masters of the day were distressed. Adultery was spreading as rampant as plagues among the people. The authorities were at a loss as to how to curb this powerful drive ...
Marc Gafni – The Lion of Fire
Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com The best way to behold such mysteries is through the gleaming prism of story. Thus we begin with a spell-binding ancient text which sits at the core of the mystery traditi ...