posted by Gafni assistant The mystical tradition tells us that even before the creation of the world, God ‘created’ miracle of splitting the Red Sea. All miracles are built into nature. God — before the creation of the world- went to the as of ...
posted by Gafni assistant The mystical tradition tells us that even before the creation of the world, God ‘created’ miracle of splitting the Red Sea. All miracles are built into nature. God — before the creation of the world- went to the as of ...
A Biblical Myth of Perception Identification The mystical manuscripts tell us, “Forty days before a soul is born into the world, the name of its soul mate is called out in heaven” The soul is then given a glimpse of its destined one. It see its b ...
“I” am God These love stories in my previous blogs are about what the Hindus called Bhakti, to truly see the other bathed in their divine radiance. “Love you neighbor as yourself,” cries out the biblical book of Leviticus. But loving your nei ...
I heard this story from a man, who had heard it from his teacher spiritual minstrel and master Shlomo Carlebach, who had no doubt heard it from another master. You see, story telling is a central occupation of the wisdom master, for stories are the f ...
posted by Dr. Gafni Assistant Shut Eyes We get tired for all sorts of good reasons. There is much we should not have to see in this world. To protect ourselves from the pain we sort of let our eyes drift shut. We become only semi-conscious and this i ...
The central mantra of biblical practice, or of the biblical spirit, is a daily meditation on the unity of God. Its single requirement is that it be recited with hands covering eyes. Because it is only with eyes closed that we no longer see the world ...
Inside, Insight Plato thus echoes biblical myth when he says that the “deepest insight springs from love.” Love is all about insight — in-sight. The ability to see in, to the inside of the inside — to the Holy of Holies that is your lover. Er ...
Is love Blind? Love to a fault is always blind Always is to a joy inclined Lawless winged and unconfined And breaks the chain from every mind William Blake Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other w ...
Love Misperceived We have come a long way. It is now clear that, contrary to what we are taught, love is not at its core an emotion. At least not in the sense we were used to thinking about emotions. We are taught that an emotion is something that ha ...
Yada Yada Yada:) We understand now that Love is a perception modeled by the sexual. To fully ground our point in Biblical myth, we just need to summon up the evocative English phrase “carnal knowledge.” It is an idiom which is rooted in the trans ...
Dear Reader, Hi, Sometimes, as in today’s first post – the first paragraph will repeat the end of yesterday’s post to allow for continuity for the new reader. Hope that is helpful! love marc Disappearing Spouse Syndrome There is a w ...
The Heruta story needs to be read as a critique of Hiyya who is blind both to himself and to those who love him. Hiyya cannot be a lover because he has no perception. Hiyya is blinded by spiritual ego. Disappearing Spouse Syndrome There is a wonderfu ...
There is much to say about this terse but telling scene. For now, let’s focus on the beginning. Hiyya was, it seems, an ascetic who viewed the denial of sexuality as the path to holiness. His wife had apparently agreed to let him pursue this path, ...
Part Two: cont’d from previous post {thanks to Jean Houston for referring me to this material} I remember waking up one morning at home about 4:30 am, and I just knew that this was it. This was the day I was going to die. So I called a few frie ...
on the first day of Simchat Torah according to the count of the Land of Israel When the Temple was destroyed the masters knew that the holy writ of biblical myth needed to be expanded and deepened. The temple, which was the archetypal object of eroti ...