What is the secret of this ancient love hidden in the Temple’s origins? What is the mystery of the Lost Ark, crowned by her sexually intertwined cherubic lovers? Why is the mythic ark’s metaphorical recovery so absolutely crucial for our lives? C ...
Archive for 2008
Marc Gafni – RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK
Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com Remember the movie Raiders of the Lost Ark, featuring Indiana Jones adventuring through the dusty Middle East in search of the Ark of the Covenant? Lives are lost, blood i ...
Marc Gafni – MEN WHOSE NAME WAS LOVE
Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com Hebrew mysticism, beginning with Abraham, gave birth to Judaism, Christianity and Islam. All three religions in their pure forms are rooted in the Temple of Jerusalem. Hen ...
Marc Gafni – ILLUMINATION, CARE AND CAREFUL
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com The unraveling of this mystery of the Cherubs is the purpose of our journey together. It will require on your part patience, passion and care. Patience as we construct the ...
Marc Gafni – CHERUBS IN THE TEMPLE
Imagine the scene: You walk into your local place of worship – church, synagogue, mosque, meditation center or whatever. The pastor or rabbi has apparently decided to redecorate while you were away on vacation. You find that he has installed at ...
Marc Gafni – EROS
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com EROS: O Taste and See The world is not with us enough O taste and see the subway Bible poster said, meaning The Lord, meaning if anything all that lives to the imagination ...
Marc Gafni – The White Fire of Eros: Let it open all the doors for you…
The White Fire of Eros: Let it open all the doors for you… marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com So as we begin our journey to love I want you to know that I will do my best in the black fire. I have tri ...
Eros and Holiness: White Fire on Black Fire: A Journey of Love: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com The White Spaces We are on a journey to Love. For as the Zohar writes ‘All the Paths (Shvilin) lead to the Temple of love’. Wherever you are, wherever you are standing ...
Eros and Holiness: The Great Dancer: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com side bar personal note before body of post: I am not a great dancer:) Grew up in Yeshiva, Orthodox Jewish School where dancing was kind of primitive even if wild and ecsta ...
Eros and Holiness: The Dancing Master: Part Sixteen: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share your comments on info@marcgafni.com The Dancing Master There is a wonderful story of Eros and love which I told my students at a special Kabbalistic ceremony the day before Cary and I were married. It i ...
Eros and Holiness: Part Fifteen: A Better Way to Dance: Marc Gafni
marc gafni published on marcgafni please share comments on info@marcgafni.com The Dancing Master A-Void-Dance Our lives are overflowing with The Void. You know the void. The big hole you feel inside. Sometimes it has hurt so much you can barely move. ...
Enlightenment and Liberation: Part Two:Marc Gafni
Enlightenment and Liberation: Post Two: Marc Gafni Posted on marcgafni.com Please share comments at info@marcgafni.com So what is enlightenment? The answer of course is that anyone and everyone makes up there own definition…to such an extent th ...
Liberation and Enlightenment: The Democratization of Enlightenment: Marc Gafni
Hebrew Wisdom as a Path to Liberation: Part One. Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com In yesterday’s post I mentioned the idea of enlightenment. The common wisdom is that enlightenment is not a Jewish idea. ...
Eros and Holiness: Part Fourteen: Life is a Recovery Movement: Marc Gafni
Marc Gafni Published on marcgafni.com Please share comments at info@marcgafni.com In reaching for the awakening of love we do well to bear in mind the teaching of mystical master Menachem Mendel of Kutz. Writing in eastern Europe in the first half of ...
Eros and Holiness: Part Thirteen: To Love is to Know REALITY: Marc Gafni
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com To Love is to Know REALITY. I wrote yesterday of the path of Love. {Eros and Holiness: Blog Post Nine; The Path of Love}. But what is love? Love is the inner reality of ...