and liberation. Several are being written with co-authors. Topics include: The Unique Self and No Self; Non-dual Humanism; The Masculine and the Feminine; The Dance of Tears-the Path of Laughter; Sex, Ethics and Injury; Shadow Dancing in the Light; Tragedy and Transformation; Sexuality and Kabbalah; Integral Judaism; Integral Kabbalah; as well as a personal sacred autobiography.
Marc Gafni is also preparing a series of books on the weekly biblical reading of the Hebrew tradition as well as the sacred cycle of time as a spiritual path in the ancient Hebrew tradition.
Marc Gafni’s Teachings
Marc Gafni’s path of study and teaching has unfolded in several stages.
In the first stage of his career, Marc Gafni was a progressive Orthodox rabbi, teaching Talmud, Kabbalah and Biblical Thought from within the Orthodox fundamentalist world in Israel and the United States. In the United States, Marc Gafni taught at Yeshiva University, serving congregations both as scholar in residence and rabbi. He founded a Jewish outreach movement in New York and Long Island public schools.
Eventually, Marc Gafni moved to Israel where he served as a rabbi and taught classical Hebrew wisdom through study of the Talmud, Kabbalah, and biblical psychology. At this stage, he wrote two Hebrew books. The first, A Certain Spirit, redefines the idea of faith, moving from the old notion of the “dogma is true” to the more radical and profound idea “I am true.” In his second book during this period, An Uncertain Spirit, Marc Gafni challenged the age-old idea that spirit could