by Marc Gafni Things are rarely what they seem, Skim milk masquerades as Cream –W. S. Gilbert, H.M.S. Pinafore According to the Kabbalah, Purim is an explosive time of paradigm shift and radical change. We all have a Purim dimension to our pers ...
Archive for 2008
The 15th day of Shevat: “Tell them that I was here Before”
by Marc Gafni On the fifteenth day of Shevat we celebrate the planting of trees. A day of myriad symbols and images–all holy and sweet. There are two ways to probe the essence of a holy day. One is as a scholar, the other as a spiritual anthropolog ...
Passover Seder; Remembering the Future
by Marc Gafni The Seder is a mystical magical night. It is the Jewish Fourth of July commemorating the annivarsary of our freedom, celebrating the liberation and birth of our nation. But it is ever so much more than that. It is the night when parents ...
Where is God!
by Marc Gafni In one of Reb Shlomo’s last albums, he talks about the missing soldiers. Thinking about the soldiers and their families’ suffering he says, “We also have a little bit of a claim against God.” – Holy words f ...