Cosmic love affair A young man walks in on Master Baruch and his wife in the midst of a heated argument. Startled, he quickly turns away. Baruch responds with a wink, âYou donât understand. You have just witnessed a discussion between God and the ...
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Mirrors of Desire and Wounded Healers? Part Three: Marc Gafni
Later, in a great epilogue to the story, the myth depicts Moses in the desert building the tabernacle. The tabernacle is essentially the first temple, replete with the ark, cherubs and holy of holies. Everyone is to bring his or her own special contr ...
Mirrors of Desire; part two: Marc Gafni
cont’d The Hebrew word for decree which I have inserted in the parentheses in the text is But this enslaved individual, whom we moderns recognize so well, has lost touch with the erotics of desire. The wonder of being on the inside â the sens ...
Mirrors of Desire: Marc Gafni
This blog seeks to unpack the beautiful text we cited in this mornings post. The myth understands that the erotics of desire is the dynamic that arouses the impulse to freedom and human dignity. Slavery is about the deadening of Eros and desire. The ...
Super Models and Cherubs; Read the Whole Post:) : Marc Gafni
{Y.M} this post, written before your question, I hope honors and addresses your question. The Shechinaâs exile is all too apparent even in Websterâs dictionary. Websterâs defines erotic as âtending to arouse sexual love or desire.” The ...
Super Models: part two
posted by dr. gafni assistant Paradoxically the place that understands this erotic secret well is the world of advertising. Even when television is bland and insipid, advertising is often erotic. Now we all realized long ago that advertising uses the ...
Super Models; part two; Marc Gafni
Moralists often accuse the advertisers of a great moral wrong in this kind of advertising. After all there seems to be a false suggestion that we will somehow get the girl if we buy the car. Moralists however often seem to think the rest of us are no ...
Super Models: Models of the Erotic: Marc Gafni
Supermodels The Shechinaâs exile is all too apparent even in Websterâs dictionary. Websterâs defines erotic as âtending to arouse sexual love or desire.” The sentence would be perfect without the word âsexual.â In the secret of the ...
a demand for depth; part four: marc gafni
cont’d…from David Foster Wallace That may sound like hyperbole, or abstract nonsense. So let’s get concrete. The plain fact is that you graduating seniors do not yet have any clue what “day in, day out” really means. The ...
Yichud=Eros
Yom Kippur is the day of Yichud. Complete Unification. Let the blog below manifest Yichud. May we all be sealed in the book of life. In Luriannic myth, these are the 288 sparks of light that remained in the shattered vessels of the Kings after they d ...
Freud and Mother’s Love: Marc Gafni
Certainly Freud was important in moving us to look at ourselves and pay attention to our inner lives. Particular at the pranic, emotional sexual, second chakra level of existence. He made a huge contribution here both to understanding and to well bei ...
Freud and Kabbalah: cont’d: Marc Gafni
continued from yesterday and the day before blogs but you can jump in here if you are just joining us. Welcome! Freud of course would have had the falafel king on the couch in no time. Freudâs understandings, which have so colored our own unconscio ...
An Erotic Hero: The Falafel Priest
An Erotic Hero, the Falafel Priest Once â and I will never forget it – I unexpectedly stepped into the Holy of Holies at a falafal stand. We were returning from visiting my sons Eytan and Yair in summer camp near the town of Hadera in Israel. ...
Kiss and Cry: Marc Gafni [
One of the most poignant moments of the Hebrew wedding is the mythic rite of the groomâs placing of a veil over the face of the bride. In doing this, he recognizes that so much of her is still hidden from him and he commits his life to coming to kn ...
Yom Kippur and Eros: Marc Gafni
post two in series of Yom Kippur Posts: Interestingly enough, Yom Kippur, along with TuâbeâAv, the fifteenth of Av, which is a summertime Holiday of Love, is thought of by the Talmud as the day for erotic matchmaking: âRabban Shimon ben Gamliei ...