An Offering of Prayer for those of us committed to Practicing the Wounds of Love: It acts like love―music, It reaches towards the face, touches it, and tries to let you know His promise: that all will be okay. It acts like love―music, a ...
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Lillith Poem
An Offering of Words in Honor of Lillith: Throw away All your begging bowls at God’s door, For I have heard the beloved Prefers sweet threatening shouts, Something of the order of: “Hey Beloved, My heart is a raging volcano Of love for yo ...
Where was God in the Tsunami?
by Marc Gafni A very good question to which we will return; first, however, we need to realize that in many ways this question is a cover up for what might be the more essential question: Where was man in the Tsunami? We have spent trillions of dolla ...
Soul Prints & Parenting
by Marc Gafni Act 8 – Soul Print Frameworks What is your original face before your mother and father were born? ~ Zen Koan Scene 1: Push and Pull – Parents and Poets A soul print mantra could well be “Follow your Joy.” For in ...
Sex, Ethics and Power
An Introduction by Marc Gafni I am preparing the website. I have just jotted down a quick introduction to the major article in the Sex, Ethics and Power section of this website. Please do not regard this introduction or even the essay itself as a pol ...
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 ...
Book Outline – Tape Transcript 2
MPI MEDIA PRODUCTIONS INTERNATIONAL from Marc Gafni MAN: The story in the Talmud, which is about the path of yearning … about following my longing. About a little boy or a young man who reaches bar mitzvah, or confirmation, and he receives all ...
The Fifth Gate: Completing the Circle
Chapter 21: Ruth, the Moabite from the book by Ohad Ezrachi and Marc Gafni When Boaz decides to marry Ruth, the Moabite, the elders of Bethlehem, who sit by the gates of the city, bless him with an exceptional blessing: All the people at the gate and ...
The Fourth Gate: Reincarnations
Chapter 16: Reincarnation as a Sifting of Good and Evil from the book by Ohad Ezrachi and Marc Gafni According to Lurianic Kabbalah, the holy sparks that exist inside every one of us are almost invisible to the naked eye. One ventures upon the spirit ...
The Third Gate: Upper Leah and the Women of “Binah”
Chapter 10: Leah, The Scholarly Woman from the book by Ohad Ezrachi and Marc Gafni In this gate we will look at how the Ari defines the unique nature of partzuf Leah. We will observe how, by sanctifying the image of partzuf Leah, the Ari facilitated ...
The Second Gate: Leah is Lillith
Chapter 5: Biblical Figures Unlock the Divine from the book by Ohad Ezrachi and Marc Gafni Those who see Lillith as the first feminist are following in the footsteps of the Ari. For, in the writings of the Kabbalists who preceded the Ari, Lillith is ...
Where is God!
by Marc Gafni In one of Reb Shlomo’s last albums, he talks about the missing soldiers. Thinking about the soldiers and their families’ suffering he says, “We also have a little bit of a claim against God.” – Holy words f ...
The First Gate: Why Lillith?
The following is a translation of the Hebrew Book, Lillith; A Re-Reading of Feminine Shadow, by Ohad Ezrahi and Marc Gafni, published in 2005. In regard to the nature of this partnership, see the note below. Ohad has written a note about this on his ...