Archive for the ‘Eros-Ethics-Meaning’ Category

On the Wounds of Love: Part Two – Marc Gafni

Posted on: July 10th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com Good evening. It is close to midnight here in Salt Lake. Just spent a wonderful evening with five goddesses. A group of friends, all powerful feminine spiritual teacher ...

On the Wounds of Love: Part One – Marc Gafni

Posted on: July 10th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com On the Wounds of Love: Part One It is five in the afternoon in Salt Lake City. It has been a hard day. I sent a letter of apology to someone I really loved. It was sent ...

Blog Post Six. First in series: On Eros and Holiness

Posted on: July 8th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com On Eros and Holiness The light and the Shadow Post One by Marc Gafni Copyright: Marc Gafni. (Under-construction version of forthcoming book.) Introduction The following ...

Imagination Part Two

Posted on: July 7th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com Imagination – Part Two Note for the scholarly reader of blogs: this is written in third person because I know scholars feel much better in third person. The follo ...

Yearning and Nightmares – Marc Gafni

Posted on: July 7th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com Good morning! Marc Gafni here. Monday morning here in Salt Lake City. Sun is shining. The essay on imagination which is the core of this blog post is below; feel free t ...

Imagination as the Next Step in Healing Pain – by Marc Gafni

Posted on: July 6th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com It is Sunday morning. I am at home in Salt Lake City. I just woke up; said the morning blessing on the study of dharma and torah. I am sharing with you some initial mus ...

The Beauty that is YOU! – Marc Gafni

Posted on: July 5th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com I received a funny e-mail today from someone. It said, “Who are you?” And that was the entire communication. What a wonderful question! So, a brief sharing is in or ...

Blog Post Two – Marc Gafni

Posted on: July 3rd, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com The Evolution of Love The Evolution of God Practicing the Wounds of Love These will be the three topics which I hope to talk with you about in this blog. They are very ...

What is Original in our Book on Lilith?

Posted on: June 27th, 2008 by Marc Gafni 1 Comment

On the Authorship of the Book Lilith The first part of this post addresses the content and ideas in the Lilith book. The second part of this post addresses the apology letter by Ohad in a public posting on this website, regarding the authorship of th ...

In the Big Picture I am Never a Victim תודעת הקורבן

Posted on: April 7th, 2008 by jeff No Comments

This short article was written by a student after the teaching Marc Gafni gave on Victim Consciousness and the story of Hagar. This article summarizes and applies in an original and insightful way the teaching of Marc Gafni. It only appears in Hebrew ...

The Seduction of Tears and Victimization

Posted on: April 7th, 2008 by jeff No Comments

On Biblical Consciousness, Victimization and Hagar by Marc Gafni An excerpt from a forthcoming book, that was written in 2005 and 2006. This article, The Seduction of Tears and the Hagar Complex, and the Culture of Complaint article, which is actuall ...

The Tale of the Harlot by the Sea

Posted on: April 7th, 2008 by jeff No Comments

This article is an essay published in Marc Gafni’s English language book The Mystery of Love, and discussed in his audio series, On the Erotic and the Holy. In recent study, Marc Gafni has added and revised this article. In Talmudic Textual Koa ...

Sexually Incorrect

Posted on: April 7th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Introduction to Sexually Incorrect by Marc Gafni The following article is still under construction. It is an expanded version of the article Spiritually Incorrect found in that section of this website. This article raises some initial questions in re ...

On Pagans and Prophets – On the Erotic and the Ethical מרדכי גפני

Posted on: February 27th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

This article only appears in hebrew. It appeared as the cover article in Tikkun Magazine in 2003. This article is incomplete. Some of the English has not yet been translated, not all the footnotes have been completed and some significant additions ha ...

Parshat BeShalach

Posted on: February 27th, 2008 by Marc Gafni No Comments

Who cares about the Temple? by Marc Gafni Most of the talk today unfortunately relates to the temple as a physical building in Jersualem. Maybe it is the Jerusalem building contractors who are behind all the fuss about the temple. Everyone is arguing ...