marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com share comments on info@marcgafni.com Kabbalah scholars point out that one of the defining characteristic of the Zohar mystics is that illumination happened not in solitary retreat but in groups engaged in sacred con ...
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Pseudo Eros, Gossip and Emptiness: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com At our spiritual retreats, which are not geared towards drug or alcohol problems, people were thrown for a little bit of a loop by the opening talk which I gave at Orienta ...
A Brief Response to Some Voices in Jewish “Leadership”: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com Hi friends, Good Morning here in Salt Lake City. I am on my way to Ca. this morning to spend a week with a group of friends, spiritual teacher types, some great rabbis, an ...
We are all Addicts: Until we are Not: Failure of Eros: Post Four: A story: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comment at info@marcgafni.com An image from the Galilee. At the spiritual retreats which I led in Israel for many years, which were not geared towards drug or alcohol problems, people were thrown for a ...
Addiction: A failure of Eros: Post Three: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com ADDICTION: A FAILURE OF EROS Addiction is, at its root, the inability to stay in the emptiness. So we rush to fill the emptiness with whatever gives us the quickest hit of ...
Marc Gafni – Emptiness and Addictions Part 2
Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com In our society which sadly defines human beings as consumers and not lovers, denial is the primary strategy for coping with emptiness. We are sold ful-fill-ment at every t ...
Marc Gafni – Emptiness and Addictions
Marc Gafni – Emptiness and Addictions Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com Eros is about feeling the fullness of being, the opposite of emptiness. Every human being has met emptiness; that feeling we ex ...
Marc Gafni – SUN AUG 17 – Part 2
Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com To live erotically is to be fully present to each other’s richness, complexity and ultimate grandeur. It is to fully wait for the other to appear. The Shechina in the Te ...
Marc Gafni – SUN AUG 17
Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com When I would lead prayers at our retreat center overlooking the Sea of Galilee in Israel, we often do a face-to-face prayer. In this prayer, people sit in twos and read Ps ...
The Second Face of Eros: Fullness of Presence – Marc Gafni
Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com The second face of eros is the ‘fullness of presence’ . This is not a distinct and different quality but flows naturally and even overlaps with the erotic qualities of ...
Marc Gafni -RECAPITULATION
Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com Let us take a moment to see the full beauty of where we’ve gone on our journey thus far. Till now we have understood that the Temple is the archetype of eros. We have un ...
Marc Gafni – EROS: PLATO AND THE ZOHAR PART 2
Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com Kabala scholar Yehuda Libes reminds us of a third word. He suggests that the word Zohar, the name of the great magnum opus of Hebrew mysticism, is roughly synonymous with ...
Marc Gafni – Eros & Zohar — Expanding our Limited Vocabulary Part 1
Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com The word eros entered Western consciousness through Socrates’ best student. Plato, in his wonderful dialogue “The Symposium”, calls the inner state which we have bee ...
IF YOU CAN HEAR YOURSELF TALKING SIT DOWN – Marc Gafni
Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com Teachers can take us home, but only if they teach from the inside. It is reported that Ziv Hirsch of Zhitomir, charismatic mystical master of the 19th century, would occas ...
Marc Gafni – Left Outside
Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com Much of modernity militates against the eros of being on the inside. Indeed, the whole psychological stance of fortifying the ego is about keeping people on the outside. O ...