Now the moralist will be quick to say, “Yes, he is right! Sex isn’t the answer!” Yet, I for one, as teacher and a human being, do not go with the moralists. That is precisely the point of the secret of the cherubs. Sex is the answer. The secret ...
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The Split of Sex and Eros: Marc Gafni
One of most famous images of the Shechina in exile laced throughout the Zohar is the prostitute. The problem with prostitution is not primarily an ethical problem. Ethical prostitutes can have far more moral decency then the ostensible pillars of the ...
Healing the Split: Marc Gafni
this post was sent to me by R. Marc on friday afternoon. Healing the Split The Shechina is exiled whenever sex and eros are split. Jake, age 37, works as a claims adjuster in an insurance firm. Often he works well into the night. He feels oppressed b ...
Stolen Waters are Sweet ReLoaded: Marc Gafni
ps. on yesterdays blogs… The goal is to commit adultery with your wife. I know literally tens of spiritual teachers who have at one time or another not succeeded in this goal. I know tens of spiritual teachers – those very same ones ̵ ...
Stolen Waters are Sweet: Marc Gafni
“Drink the water of your own cistern, and running water of your own well. So will your spring be prolific outside, and streams of water will flow in the streets. They will be yours alone, and strangers will have no place in your intimacy. Your sour ...
Stolen Waters are Sweet: Marc Gafni
The fall of the Temple is the mythic expression of the exile of the erotic, not only into the sexual, but specifically into boundary-breaking sexuality. Listen in on a strange and wonderfully mythic talmudic discussion! A reposting from yesterday in ...
Stolen Waters are Sweet: Marc Gafni
The fall of the Temple is the mythic expression of the exile of the erotic, not only into the sexual, but specifically into boundary-breaking sexuality102. Listen in on a strange and wonderfully mythic Talmudic discussion! A man is struck by the beau ...
Exile within Exile: Commentary on Yesterday’s Blog: Marc Gafni
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 ...
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 ...