Unblocking the wells, unbottling the tears, can be a dangerous task. The question is, has Isaac left his genie bottled up too long? When the waters break forth, will they turn to deluge or blessing? The fairy tale talks of the danger of waiting too l ...
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Re-Post: Three Levels of Love: Three Levels of Spirit: Marc Gafni
Re-Post: The Biblical Roots of Love Dedicated to Lady Mary and Lord Bruce:) Someone once said that reading the Bible in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil. To touch the mystery of Hebrew mysticism, you need to touch your lips to the o ...
To See With God’s Eyes: The Story of Abraham: Marc Gafni
To See With God’s Eyes: Marc Gafni Someone once said that reading the Bible in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil. To touch the mystery of Hebrew mysticism, you need to touch your lips to the original words themselves. The key w ...
You Are Beautiful: Marc Gafni
“You are Beautiful!” Before Soul Prints came out, I was at a New York publishing house, presenting the book proposal. Half a dozen professionals were seated around a stretch limo type of an oak table looking very official, sharp, literarily daunt ...
Love is the Perception Identification Dance: Marc Gafni
Liquid Love —To see the Future in the Now There are then two distinct components in our biblical myth definition of loving. To love means to perceive the infinite specialness in an other; to reveal the divine in the other; to see in the other what ...
Love is a Soul Print Perception: Marc Gafni
Love is a Soul Print Perception. This is the journey from loneliness to loving. Our soul print is the DNA of our soul. All those irreplaceable fully special pieces that make up in unique combination the woven fabric of our individual stories. All of ...
Love is a Soul Print Perception: Marc Gafni
Soul Print Lovers Love is perception of the inside of our beloved. Of their face, of their divine point, of their soul print. Soul Print is the infinitely unique essence of the beloved. A soul print, you may remember from our last journey together, i ...
Life After Death: Part Two: Marc Gafni
Part Two: cont’d from previous post {thanks to Jean Houston for referring me to this material} I remember waking up one morning at home about 4:30 am, and I just knew that this was it. This was the day I was going to die. So I called a few frie ...
Great to be The Unique Self: Marc Gafni
It is a beautiful Sunday afternoon in California. Just finished teaching at a wonderful spiritual center. The public teaching was a dharma track which I have been evolving – even as it has been evolving me – for almost twenty years, calle ...
My Kids, Eytan and Yair
It is Monday Morning and I am in Torrey Utah with my son and two good friends. My son Yair is nineteen. He takes my breath away. His depth of commitment to Mitzvah, {Commandment, Hebrew Spiritual Practice}, his raw goodness, his sophisticated underst ...
Victim or Player: Marc Gafni
Victim or Player Auschwitz Birkenhau Marc Gafni Posted on marcgafni.com Share comments on info@marcgafni.com The dance of the subject and object, the movement between the two is the great and undulating dance of our lives. It is the perpetual dance b ...
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. ...
On Being a Spiritual Teacher or Spiritual Artist; On Changing my Name and the Hate Blogs of History: Part Two: Marc Gafni
[english] marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com Truth be told, being a spiritual teacher or a spiritual artist in a particularly direct and open way is not at all easy. Your job is to afflict the comfortabl ...
Eros and Holiness: Part Eight: Dance Me to the End of Love – Marc Gafni
marc gafni published on marcgafni.com please share comments on info@marcgafni.com Eros and Holiness: Part Seven Dance Me to the End of Love Life is a choice. You can remain a bee trapped in a bottle and everyone―except yourself―will be ...
The Tale of the Harlot by the Sea
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 ...