The tale below told about Master Levi Isaac of Berdichev appears in Dr. Marc Gafni’s volume Certainty, a companion to the book Uncertainty, neither of which have yet been published in English.* The tale also appears in the audio course The E ...
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The Seven Levels of Certainty and Uncertainty
By Marc Gafni The following are notes from Marc Gafni’s dharma talk given in March 2012 at Shalom Mountain Wisdom School, where Gafni serves as the World Spirituality Teacher in Residence. Introduction The seven levels of certainty and uncertai ...
The Israel Moment: Reclaiming Uncertainty as a Spiritual Value
By Dr. Marc Gafni Uncertainty is ethically and spiritually essential, Marc Gafni writes here, because it allows us to reach higher certainty, avoid the seduction of false certainty, and reach spiritual authenticity. In this excerpt from Chapter One o ...
Liberated Consciousness; Where’s the Cheese? – Marc Gafni
by Marc Gafni A Sukkat Shalom according to the Zohar is the sense that I belong. That I am part of something far deeper than just the walls of my house. And so we leave our houses to dwell in the fragility of the Sukkah in order to try and discover w ...
Marc Gafni: Tears of Angels: Marc Gafni
New Post begins in the middle of post below … I reposted some of the last two days so that you have the whole picture go to asterisk below if you want to only read today’s post. To retell Abraham’s tale So let us now help Isaac let go o ...
Tears of Angels: Part Ten: Marc Gafni
First a recap of weekend blog torah..and then a really big post for today… :) To retell Abraham’s tale So let us now help Isaac let go of his anger towards Abraham by telling another small piece of the Abraham story. We need to return to the ...
Evil is the part of us that perceives without love: Marc Gafni
The Original Misperception The original misperception, writes Israel, Master of the Name, is to see yourself as separate from God. That is original sin. Evil, in biblical myth, is called “Amalek.” Again, mystical gematria points us to a deeper tr ...
The Best Lack all Conviction: Marc Gafni
In modernity, as Yeats said in his classic critique, “The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” If we do not reclaim the erotic for the spirit and the good, then its shadow will seduce us and our world to the ...
Fundamentalism is on the Rise: Marc Gafni
Fundamentalism is on the rise in the world because it offers a pseudo-erotic experience of community coupled with a pseudo-erotic worldview. Particularly sacred fellowship, with all of its passion and interconnectivity, is a key feature of the fundam ...
A Culture of Complaint; The Hagar Complex and the Culture of Victimization
by Marc Gafni This article is the second part of an article that appears below, The Seduction of Tears and the Hagar Complex. The reader is advised to read that teaching first and only then return to this teaching. The following introduction outlines ...
On the Wounds of Love: Part Four – Marc Gafni
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com On the Wounds of Love: Part Four We long for certainty. But are we ever really certain of the correctness of our ideas about how the world should be? In moments of hurt ...
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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 ...
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 ...