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Simon & Schuster Audio, March 2001
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ISBN-10: 0743519426
ISBN-13: 9780743519427
Description
A charismatic American philosopher living in Jerusalem, Marc Gafni has become an important voice on religion and spirituality through his enormously popular weekly television program; now, his universal message comes to America, fully realized, in his first book.
Marc Gafni follows in the tradition of Rabbi Harold Kushner and Ram Dass, bringing wisdom to everyday experience and using spiritual stories to teach us how to live happier lives. The secret is to "live your story," and we do this by identifying our unique selves -- our "soul prints." Only then can we connect on a deeper level with the world and with those sharing it alongside us.
Soul Prints speaks to all readers, regardless of religious beliefs or practices. Using the power of myth -- Biblical and folk -- and drawing on his own highs and lows, Gafni offers advice on how to overcome the obstacles of an increasingly disconnected world to form bonds based in truth and love: connections that begin with our true selves.
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Table of ContentsRichard Carlson Soul Prints is a book that can change your life.
Richard CarlsonMarc Gafni is an important and exciting new spiritual guide. With humility, genuine warmth, and enormous power, Gafni merges ancient wisdom with his profound insights to lead us back to ourselves.
Barbara De Angelis, Ph.D.author of Real MomentsMarc Gafni's wisdom and insight moved my heart and inspired my mind. This new teacher of spirit from Jerusalem is sure to become an important voice in helping to chart our soul paths in the new millennium. Soul Prints is a book you should not miss.
Dr. Arthur CaliandroMinister, Marble Collegiate ChurchMarc Gafni is a spiritual powerhouse. Soul Prints guides us helpfully as we discover the fundamental thirst of every soul: to love and be loved. This lifelong search is tied neatly in a beautiful wrapping called Soul Prints. Marc Gafni is a voice to be heard.
Rabbi David Woznicadirector, 92nd Street Y Bronfman Center for Jewish Life, New YorkA gifted writer and profound thinker, Rabbi Gafni's elegant style of weaving Biblical, Kabbalistic, and literary sources with philosophy and physics offers an original and exciting perspective in our quest to infuse our lives with deeper meaning.
Rabbi Michael Lernereditor of Tikkun magazine and author of Spirit Matters: Global Healing and the Wisdom A new voice has sounded! Passionate, brilliant, and real, a poet philosopher -- Marc Gafni is emerging as one of the great spiritual teachers of our generation. Like the Hasidic masters of old he is profound, incisive, erudite -- but more importantly, like them he is enigmatic, flawed, and mysterious
-- and it is in precisely those places where his greatness wells. With a tongue that speaks to all and a heart that overflows, Gafni is questing for the light and he just may take us all with him.
Peter Pitzele, Ph.D.author of Our Fathers' WellsIn Soul Prints Marc Gafni has done the extraordinary: he has wedded the deepest currents of classical spirituality to the soundest insights of modern psychology. For the scholar there is a trove here for discovery and reflection; for the layman a compendium of insights that will further growth and community. Gafni emerges in this book as a modern master, learned and hip, at home in a variety of discourses and bringing his depth of scholarship and practical experience to bear on the fundamental issues of human identity. This book begins a great adventure.
Rabbi Joseph Telushkinauthor of The Book of Jewish ValuesA radical, profound, and important guide to enable each reader to find out why he is on this earth
-- and what he can do to make sure that he actualizes the person he or she is meant to be.
Jennifer Laszlo-Mizrachipolitical consultant, Laszlo and AssociatesA stunning piece of work, so clear and true that it rings as obvious as Newton's Laws of Gravity, but is as earth-shattering today as Newton's laws were in his time. Rabbi Gafni's book touches the mind and the heart at once. A majestic journey to the heavens and back into the reader's soul, it reaches inside our own very humanity. A must-read for anyone anxious to learn what matters most
-- their own destiny, happiness, and soul.
Noam ZionShalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, author of A Different Night: The Family Participation Haggadah and A Different Light: The Hanukkah Book of CelebrationRabbi Marc Gafni is a uniquely creative and exciting philosopher on the Israeli scene. Like Martin Buber, the philosopher of dialogue, he has built a bridge from the insights of original Hasidic and mystical texts to the most contemporary needs of tens of thousands of seekers. In learned lectures, on television, in Woodstock-like spiritual festivals, in books both popular and academic, he has mined the Bible for guidance in living our personal myths, which for him means a vision of humanity embodying both Divine fire and individual shadows.
R. Leonid FeldmanTemple Emanu-El, Palm Beach, FloridaThe most creative and talented spiritual teacher in Israel today.
Avraham InfeldPresident, Melitz Educational InstitutionsRarely has a uniquely gifted teacher been able to express himself in writing as well as before a class. Gafni has done it! His charisma, brilliance, erudition, charm, and creativity come across in Soul Prints as sharply as attested to by his many students. This is a contribution to a life of spiritual value to many thousands of all faiths.
Rabbi J. Rolando MatalonCongregation Bnai Jeshurun, New York CityRabbi Marc Gafni offers us a fascinating gift: a kaleidoscope of endless color and vision. As we turn the pages, Gafni's brilliance and creativity take us into a deep journey of the soul.
