by Marc Gafni The mystery begins in the inner precincts of Solomon’s sacred temple in Jerusalem, unraveling the deep, wondrous and provocative relationship between sex, Eros and love. It is the unpacking of this first stage of the mysteries tha ...
Archive for 2011
Essay On Gratitude – Marc Gafni
FAITH: IS IT TRUE OR AM I TRUE? by Marc Gafni This essay was written in different forms over many years. I first taught this Torah some 13 years ago in 1995 in Jerusalem at talks I gave in the Yamim Moshe neighborhood of Jerusalem at the Zionist conf ...
The Pain of Eros Poem – Marc Gafni
An Offering of Words: I would not want all my words To parade around this world In pretty costumes, So I will tell you something Of the Barroom view of love. Love is grabbing hold of the Great Lion’s mane And wrestling and rolling deep into Existen ...
Homo Imaginus and the Erotics of the Imagination — Marc Gafni
by Marc Gafni A version of this article was published in Journal of Myth and Culture Parabola under the title “The Kabbalah of Imagination in 2006.” In that version, the issue of imagination was separated from the issue of Eros. The versi ...