Dedicated to Lord Bruce and Lady Mary One of the great Biblical loves is that of Jacob for Rachel. The scene where Jacob, having left fame, family and fortune behind, meets Rachel at the well is well known. He loves her, kisses her and cries. Love an ...
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Giving in Love: Part Eight: Marc Gafni
Love is as Love Does Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. -Ursula K. LeGuin, The Lathe of Heaven Loving and giving are inextricably bound up. The great medieval philosopher Maimoni ...
Giving in Love: Part Seven: Marc Gafni
A Light Motif Now the core intuition of all the great systems of the spirit is that love is captured best by the image of light. Kabbala teaches that the light which fills the vessels of creation is love. The word Torah itself — an all-encompassing ...
Giving in Love: Marc Gafni: Part Six
To love is to be committed to the growth of the other. This always requires at least the temporary ability for self-transcendence. We are divinely hardwired for giving as self-transcendence. God in the meditations of the mystics reveals herself as a ...
Giving in Love: Marc Gafni: Part Five
The Baron Loves The giving necessary in love is made clear in a great folktale. There was once a fisherman who caught a large pike. Seeing what a substantial catch this was, he says out loud, “I won’t eat this fish. He is such a great catch that ...
Giving in Love: Marc Gafni: Part Four
posted by Dr. Gafni assistant Dr. Gafni asked me to dedicate this post to the staff and community of iEvolve Global Practice Community Transcendence & the Gradual Widening of Self To be a lover is to be a giver. It is through the consistent commi ...
Giving in Love: Part Three: Marc Gafni
Transcendence & the Gradual Widening of Self To be a lover is to be a giver. It is through the consistent commitment to the growth of the other expressed through regular and spontaneous acts of giving that you become a lover. Slowly over time â ...
Giving in Love: Part Two with Marc Mordechai Gafni
You see, built into the sexual is an enormous desire to give, particularly to give pleasure. In virtually all arenas of living, most of us are perpetually on the prowl for the great deal. The great deal is always about getting the most while giving ...
Giving in Love: Part One: Marc Gafni
Sensual Saints Rollo May, in his classic work Love and Will, correctly bemoans modernity’s overemphasis on performance and technique at the expense of feeling and passion. He tells one story of a patient who used ointment on the tip of his sexual o ...
Next Steps on the Path of Eros: Giving, Giving Receiving, and Giving up Control: Marc Gafni
New set of blogs starting here… The Second Path of Hebrew Tantra: At this point that we are ready to embark on the next three Hebrew Tantric paths of loving. They are Giving (Transcendence), Giving and Receiving, and Giving up Control (Surrende ...
Giving in Love: Marc Gafni
posted by Marc Gafni assistant I want to be a lover. You want to be a lover. Together we are charting the course of love. What a tremendous privilege to journey with you, to share with you the secret of the cherubs, to be in awe together over the mys ...
To Love is to Give: Part One: Marc Gafni
The sum which two lovers owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity. Goethe, “Elective Affinities” marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com share comments below or on info@marcgafni. ...
Falling in Love: Part Forty Two: Marc Gafni
When we meet our soul mate we think we meet for the first time. The Kabbalah teaches that this is almost never the case. The great existential idea of the soul’s reincarnation is that we are not strangers to each other. Especially not to the person ...
Falling in Love: Part Forty One: For all Those Looking to Call in the One: A Story of Reincarnation and Soul Mates: Marc Gafni
Dedicated to Katherine and her holy work: The Scholar and the Onion Sellers Daughter One day the Baal Shem Tov, as he was wont to do, stopped for a visit in a small village market. He came upon an old woman. With one hand she begged from the crowd, w ...
Falling in Love: Part Forty: The Divided Self: Marc Gafni
Palga Gufa – The Divided Soul It is said that the students asked Israel Master of the Name, “When you pass on, will you ascend to heaven in flaming fire?” “No,” Israel answered sadly. “I had thought I would, but now that my holy wife ...