by Marc Gafni Act 8 – Soul Print Frameworks What is your original face before your mother and father were born? ~ Zen Koan Scene 1: Push and Pull – Parents and Poets A soul print mantra could well be “Follow your Joy.” For in ...
Archive for 2008
Sex, Ethics and Power
An Introduction by Marc Gafni I am preparing the website. I have just jotted down a quick introduction to the major article in the Sex, Ethics and Power section of this website. Please do not regard this introduction or even the essay itself as a pol ...
The Judah Moment
by Marc Gafni Back in 1893 there was a reading contest in London. People gathered to hear Shakespearean actors read Psalm 23, “The Lord is My Shepherd,” competing for the substantial prize to be awarded for the best recitation. As the eve ...
Enlightenment
by Marc Gafni The basic teaching that I was sharing in 2005 and 2006 was that Torah is an enlightenment teaching. Hebrew wisdom is an ENLIGHTENMENT teaching. HEBREW WISDOM IS A LIBERATION TEACHING. Particularly I taught and teach and will teach that ...
Author’s Preface to A Certain Spirit
The following articles are from the second book Marc Gafni published in 2000 on the topic Certainty and Uncertainty. The book is called Vadai in Hebrew and A Certain Spirit in English. The core theme of the book on certainty is a re-understanding of ...
An Offering of Words: MANIC SCREAMING
Marc Gafni: We should all make spiritual talk Simple today: God is trying to sell you something, But you don’t want to buy, That is what your suffering is: Your fantastic haggling, Your Manic screaming over the price ...
Book Outline – Tape Transcript 2
MPI MEDIA PRODUCTIONS INTERNATIONAL from Marc Gafni MAN: The story in the Talmud, which is about the path of yearning … about following my longing. About a little boy or a young man who reaches bar mitzvah, or confirmation, and he receives all ...
Book Outline – Tape Transcript 1
MPI MEDIA PRODUCTIONS INTERNATIONAL from Marc Gafni (OFF MIKE) MAN: Hope you all are well and wonderful and sweet flowing energy in your world. Bill, it was a pleasure meeting you. Bob, really a great pleasure. You are going to be my rebbe, my master ...
The Fifth Gate: Completing the Circle
Chapter 21: Ruth, the Moabite from the book by Ohad Ezrachi and Marc Gafni When Boaz decides to marry Ruth, the Moabite, the elders of Bethlehem, who sit by the gates of the city, bless him with an exceptional blessing: All the people at the gate and ...
The Fourth Gate: Reincarnations
Chapter 16: Reincarnation as a Sifting of Good and Evil from the book by Ohad Ezrachi and Marc Gafni According to Lurianic Kabbalah, the holy sparks that exist inside every one of us are almost invisible to the naked eye. One ventures upon the spirit ...
The Third Gate: Upper Leah and the Women of “Binah”
Chapter 10: Leah, The Scholarly Woman from the book by Ohad Ezrachi and Marc Gafni In this gate we will look at how the Ari defines the unique nature of partzuf Leah. We will observe how, by sanctifying the image of partzuf Leah, the Ari facilitated ...
The Second Gate: Leah is Lillith
Chapter 5: Biblical Figures Unlock the Divine from the book by Ohad Ezrachi and Marc Gafni Those who see Lillith as the first feminist are following in the footsteps of the Ari. For, in the writings of the Kabbalists who preceded the Ari, Lillith is ...