Once a year in a spine tingling mystery rite the priest would enter the Holy of Holies. On this day, every person was forgiven. On this day, every person was to re-experience themselves in the depths of their own true innocence. For on the inside we ...
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Marc Gafni – GOD’S POETS
Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com In our deepest erotic longings, so many of us do want to be God’s poets, God’s prophets and priests. Yet we are ashamed to admit it —sometimes even to ourselves. We ...
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 – 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 ...
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 – 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 ...
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 ...
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: On the Evolution of Love: Part Twelve: Marc Gafni
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com The footnotes shared in Eros and Holiness Post Eight require some explanation. First, they are intended primarily for advanced Students. Second, they are for the most p ...
Original Sources for Parts Five, Six and Seven: Eros and Holiness: Marc Gafni
posted by marc gafni on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com For an explanation about the nature of these notes and the nature of creating new spiritual thought in general particularly from ancient and sacred sources, see please ...
On Eros, Speed Racer, Kabbalah, Why I Teach, Torah, Liberation, Humiliation and Humility, Non Duality, Part and Whole, The Holy of Holies and Thank You Larry. Part Five: Marc Gafni
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com Speed Racer is Eros= Holiness= Sanity= Atonement= Joy Everyone has a place in life where they can be sane. That is the place where they know reality. Where part merges ...
On Eros and Holiness, Sanity, Speed Racer, Why I Teach, Torah, Liberation, Humiliation and Humility, Non Duality, Part and Whole, the Holy of Holies and Thank You Larry. Part Two: Marc Gafni
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com Speed Racer is about teaching and transmission; Rex Racer, his father and mother and Trixie his girl friend since age seven or so are all Speed Racers teachers even as ...