See above, a couple of blogs back, where we showed how the Shehina in Exile is Herself in an additional exile, that of the “maidservant”. I would only add here that the Tiqunei Zohar presents another unusual idea — that Kudsha Brih Hu, the Divi ...
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Searching for Eros in All the Wrong Places: Marc Gafni
Exile Within an Exile In the language of kabbalists, we are now in an exile within an exile101. The first exile of the Shechina is the exile of the erotic into the sexual. The second is the exile of the erotic within the sexual itself. The erotic is ...
The Fall of Eros: Marc Gafni
However we cannot live in non erotic world. So unconsciously we seek compensation. We look to get our erotic fix in the sexual. But this doesn’t work either. For when you de-eroticize all of the world except sex, then the sexual collapses as well. ...
Sexuality collapses under the Weight of an Impossible Demand: Marc Gafni
Sex – and this is the secret of the cherubs – is one of our great spiritual guides. What we will do in the rest of these blogs over the coming year, is to outline in every set of blogs a particular quality of being which is modeled in the ...
The exile of the Shekinah is the exile of the Erotic into the Sexual: Marc Gafni
In this blog we want to provide some deep context in sources of hebrew wisdom for this core idea that that the exile of the shekinah is in one expression, the exile of the erotic into the sexual. This is important so follow closely my friends. {This ...
Eros Exiled into the Sexual: Marc Gafni
Exiled Into the Sexual Now let’s go back to our lost ark and its cherubs situated in the inner sanctum of the Temple. The ark in particular and the Temple in general are the mythic symbols of the Shechina, that is, of the erotic experience. That is ...
Living on the Inside: Marc Gafni
The First Face of Eros: Being on the Inside: Interiority Being on the inside means not on the inside of your sexual partner, for that is limited to the masculine sexual experience — rather it is about being on the inside of the experience itself. Y ...
Eros Everywhere: Marc Gafni
The sexual is in the hidden teaching of the cherubs, the ultimate spiritual master. Thus, deep understanding of the sexual is the ultimate guide to accessing the spirit in every dimension of our reality. We are not talking about sexual technique. Sex ...
Sex is the Answer: What does that Mean? Marc Gafni
There are those who have told me….shhh- do not talk about sexuality; someone might hear you:) but if i have learned anything in the past few years it is about sexuality, it’s beauty and it’s demonization. So at least for the next pe ...
Basic Intuition of Hebrew Tantra: Marc Gafni
Contrary to classical religion and much of psychology, Hebrew tantra insists that sex is integrally related to love and Eros. There is no disconnect. Not because it is always nice if you love the person you are sleeping with. But far more powerfully, ...
A note about the term Kabbalistic Tantra or Hebrew Tantra: Marc Gafni
The texts of the tantric system are part of the Hindu Agama texts. Tantra in it’s original meaning is said by some scholars to mean a weaving, web or loom. It encompasses both a dual and non dual tradition with many and varied practices. It is ...
Hebrew Tantra: Marc Gafni
What is clear is that neither of the approaches that we described in the last couple of blogs honor the mystery of sex in our lives. It is at this point that we turn to the Temple mystics who affirm a radically different vision of the sexual. The Sec ...
No One seems to be enjoying themselves: Marc Gafni
Since the sexual revolution, ostensibly uninhibited sex is available in infinite variety in almost every imaginable social or commercial context, and yet we do not seem any better for it. So much sex and so little pleasure. So many orgasms and so lit ...
Two Lines on Freud and Sexuality: Marc Gafni
The first coalition which talks about sex is the moralist group which we discussed yesterday briefly. The second powerful coalition of forces talking about sex tells us ‘Sex is wonderful — if liberated, the panacea of all ill, if repressed the so ...
Hebrew Tantra: Marc Gafni
Hebrew Tantra: If we stop to think even for a short moment, we realize that sex really is the great mystery of our lives. Two groups however suggest very different approaches to sex. One powerful group of forces is arrayed in culture to prevent us fr ...