Why is the teaching of Eros so important today: part one: marc gafni

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Revealing the Hidden

For many years the cherubic mystery tradition was not taught publicly and often not at all in the Hebrew wisdom traditions. This was not accidental. Hebrew tantra is an inseparable part of the whole Hebrew gestalt. In marked contrast to some of its Indian stepchildren and pagan antecedents — the Hebrew worldview was primarily rooted in a commitment to ethics. Ethical action was seen as the center of sacred work with importance far and above any other dimension of spiritual practice.

So for the last two millennium after the Temple’s fall the major focus of the spiritual work has been making ethics an integral part of the human life. As my grandfather used to say, “The most important thing is to be a “Mentch.” (Yiddish for ‘a person with integrity’.) For him, and for the tradition that produced him, ethics always trumped all other cards. The problem is that once we have incorporated ethics into the fabric of our lives, we find that they are not enough. We have still not filled the emptiness.

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