marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com The White Spaces We are on a journey to Love. For as the Zohar writes ‘All the Paths (Shvilin) lead to the Temple of love’. Wherever you are, wherever you are standing ...
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Eros and Holiness: The Great Dancer: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com side bar personal note before body of post: I am not a great dancer:) Grew up in Yeshiva, Orthodox Jewish School where dancing was kind of primitive even if wild and ecsta ...
Eros and Holiness: The Dancing Master: Part Sixteen: Marc Gafni
marc gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share your comments on info@marcgafni.com The Dancing Master There is a wonderful story of Eros and love which I told my students at a special Kabbalistic ceremony the day before Cary and I were married. It i ...
Eros and Holiness: Part Fifteen: A Better Way to Dance: Marc Gafni
marc gafni published on marcgafni please share comments on info@marcgafni.com The Dancing Master A-Void-Dance Our lives are overflowing with The Void. You know the void. The big hole you feel inside. Sometimes it has hurt so much you can barely move. ...
Enlightenment and Liberation: Part Two:Marc Gafni
Enlightenment and Liberation: Post Two: Marc Gafni Posted on marcgafni.com Please share comments at info@marcgafni.com So what is enlightenment? The answer of course is that anyone and everyone makes up there own definition…to such an extent th ...
Liberation and Enlightenment: The Democratization of Enlightenment: Marc Gafni
Hebrew Wisdom as a Path to Liberation: Part One. Marc Gafni posted on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com In yesterday’s post I mentioned the idea of enlightenment. The common wisdom is that enlightenment is not a Jewish idea. ...
Eros and Holiness: Part Fourteen: Life is a Recovery Movement: Marc Gafni
Marc Gafni Published on marcgafni.com Please share comments at info@marcgafni.com In reaching for the awakening of love we do well to bear in mind the teaching of mystical master Menachem Mendel of Kutz. Writing in eastern Europe in the first half of ...
Eros and Holiness: Part Thirteen: To Love is to Know REALITY: Marc Gafni
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com To Love is to Know REALITY. I wrote yesterday of the path of Love. {Eros and Holiness: Blog Post Nine; The Path of Love}. But what is love? Love is the inner reality of ...
Eros and Holiness: On the Evolution of Love: Part Twelve: Marc Gafni
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com The footnotes shared in Eros and Holiness Post Eight require some explanation. First, they are intended primarily for advanced Students. Second, they are for the most p ...
Love or Die: A Politics of Love: Eros and Holiness: Part Eleven
marc gafni posted by marc gafni please share comments on info@marcgafni.com The Path of Love One cannot be told that life is worth while —one must experience the love of living first hand. Yet so few people have an unmediated sense of the adequacy, ...
Original Sources for Parts Five, Six and Seven: Eros and Holiness: Marc Gafni
posted by marc gafni on marcgafni.com please share comments at info@marcgafni.com For an explanation about the nature of these notes and the nature of creating new spiritual thought in general particularly from ancient and sacred sources, see please ...
Eros and Holiness: Part Ten: Marc Gafni
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com I am a Kabbalist. And I am in pain. I am in pain because the world and therefore God is in pain1. To shatter the narrowness of my egocentricity and to feel both the pai ...
Possible Names for our New Library: Marc Gafni
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com The Library or Series that we are suggesting might be called by any one of the following names: Next Steps Library {or Series} New Jewish Thought Library {or Series} Li ...
A New Library: Marc Gafni
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com Introduction: The following modest proposal was submitted to the board of the foundation as an outline of the library that the foundation would like to produce. The lea ...
Letter to Friends that went out today sharing the website and my public perspective on where we are and where we need to go: Marc Gafni
[english] marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com A Public Letter send to people on my mailing list inviting them to look at our website. Hi Friend, Shalom Chaver I hope this note finds you well. First a tech ...