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"This guy knows all the gossip, the ins and outs, the lashon hara of the Orthodox world. He’s an [expert] in... all the inner workings of the Orthodox world." (Rabbi Aaron Rakeffet-Rothkoff) LATEST POSTS:
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- What the Institutions Were Buying: A Demand-Side Account of the Jason Arday Appointments
- Who Is Cheap to Threaten: Legal Deterrence and the Selection of Publishers
- ‘Jason Arday: The Most Extreme Academic Plagiarism Case in Modern History | Nathan Cofnas’
- The Vanishing Author: First-Person Density in Luke Ford’s Archive, 2007 to 2026
- Four Dates and No Cause: What Changed Luke Ford’s Blogging Between Late 2023 and Late 2025
- Two Defensible Denominators: What a Standard Accusation Dictionary Says About Luke Ford’s Archive, and Why It Says the Opposite Thing Twice
- The Second Collapse: Twenty Years of Luke Ford’s Publication Threshold, Measured
- Luke Ford and the E-Personality: Twenty-Nine Years of Disinhibition, Self-Regulation, and the Price of Friction
- The Room Around the Argument: Audience Sorting at Outside the Beltway, 2003-2026
- Steven Taylor, James Joyner and the E-Personality: Aboujaoude’s Virtually You Tested on Twenty Years of Outside the Beltway
- Amy Wax and the E-Personality: A Claim-Level Analysis, 1996-2026
- After Cathy’s Table: How Digital Platforms Reshaped a Generation of Professional Writers
- Nathan Cofnas and the E-Personality: The Auditor, the Performer, and the Cambridge Investigation
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Category Archives: Marc Gafni
Over Shabbos, I Penetrated The Mystery Of Love
Today I read Rabbi Dr. Marc Gafni‘s 2003 book "The Mystery of Love." I was surprised to find it such an erotically charged book. I thought it would be boring. From page 68: "The model for eros is virtually always … Continue reading
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Tagged animal skin, love quot, mail, marc gafni, reading table, synagogue service, torah scroll
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Marc Gafni’s Son Survives 15 Days In Gaza To Get Injured In A Car Accident
Rabbi Dr. Marc Gafni blogs: Eytan just got back from 15 horrendous days as the commander of a group of Israeli special forces commandos who were serving in Gaza. I will not – at this time – tell the stories … Continue reading
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Tagged eytan, head on collision, israeli special forces, marc gafni, rehabilitation hospital, tel hashomer
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Self-Telecourse With Rabbi Dr. Marc Gafni
I love this, especially the graphic, it opens up all my shakras, if I was at a lower level of consciousness I would mock that which I do not understand, but I evolved and am now ready to proclaim the … Continue reading
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Tagged enlightenment path, esoteric christianity, four noble truths, home study program, ken wilber, rabbi marc gafni
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Religion Vs Spirituality
All videos here: Joe emails: All of your silly videos with Gafni were worth watching for his brilliant analysis of religion v. spirituality. Religion is all about code, it is like the Marines. The Marines fight a certain way, and … Continue reading
Posted in Marc Gafni, Orthodoxy, Spirituality
Tagged brilliant analysis, Kabbalah Centre, muskin, peoples of the world, positive energy, thanking god
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Saturday Night In Salt Lake City With Marc Gafni
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Saturday Night In Salt Lake City III
Full video here: Chaim Amalek emails: Where Luke once hobnobbed with the Blogger Elite of LA (thanks to the late Cathy Seipp), he now hangs out with the likes of Marc Gafni in Utah. Even Elliot Stein is giving Luke … Continue reading
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Tagged family intervention, Holly Randall, marc gafni, religious texts, salt lake city, salvation army, saturday night, wide berth
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Saturday Night In Salt Lake City II
All videos from my weekend trip here:
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Tagged salt lake city, saturday night, weekend trip
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Recognizing When You Are Wrong
Hanging out in Wasatch National Park with Marc Gafni:
I Spent The Weekend In Salt Lake City
Marc Gafni hosted me. We shot some video at the national park up in the mountains. Here are some photos from 8550 feet elevation today: D. emails: "If the clues from your childhood weren’t enough–the all-too-close "friendship" with young Wayne … Continue reading
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Tagged elevation, marc gafni, mountains, photos, salt lake city
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Marc Gafni Talks With Me About Hate Sites IV
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