Giving in Love: Story of the Holy Snuff Box: Part Twenty: Marc Gafni
Giving in Love: Story of the Holy Snuff Box: Part Twenty: Marc Gafni
April 30, 2009
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A Shamanic Story
Story of the Snuff Box
The story of the holy snuff box. Here is the story as I heard it.
Everybody knows that Holy Beggars hold the world together. Thus would one modern master introduce the following sacred story. Never, never pass by a holy beggar, and they are all holy. Walk across the street. Go out of your way! Who knows who he really is? Who knows what great soul lays hidden in that tattered beggar? You never know… You never know. All you can know that is if someone asks, they must certainly need.
One day a beggar came to see the Holy Israel, Master of the Name. He was angry and depressed. “What kind of a God do you have. I used to be rich – I helped many people. But now look at me – I have lost everything. It’s not fair. How did such a fate fall upon me?!” And with that the beggar broke down into tears.
“Sweet Yossele,” said Israel, Master of the Name. “All the mysteries are in your own life. Think back to Yom Kippur six years ago.”
And now the master Israel had Yossele’s complete attention. For how did he know that his name was Yossele – and how could he know what he had done six years ago? Master Israel continued. “It was a fast day, the holiest day of the year. A day when we pray all day long. People on that day are at their weakest, but also at their highest. You remember, Yossele, that you brought the snuff box to the prayer service?” For although on this fast day eating is proscribed, fragrance is permitted. Often, as in the prayer fellowship I grew up in, snuff boxes would be passed around, to offer fragrance to revive the spirits for prayer.
”Do you remember, asked Master Israel, how you went around to all the congregants giving snuff to everybody?” Yossele, now spellbound, could only nod silently. “Well there was a beggar in the back of the room, lying lifelessly on a bench. You said to yourself – just for a second, ‘Why should I walk back there for him? He can come up to me to get his snuff.” Yossele was overwhelmed as he recalled for the first time that fleeting thought. “Well,” continued Master Israel “that beggar hadn’t eater for three full days. If only you knew how much he needed that pinch of snuff! He was so inside of his prayer that the heavenly gates were wide open… listening to his every word, his every sigh.
“When the holy angels saw that you did not walk back and give this holy soul some snuff, that was it – they were enraged! They decreed you should lose all your money and that the beggar should become wealthy instead of you. Well, that beggar is now the wealthiest man in your town.”
At this point, Yossele’s contrition turned to anger. “You mean that beggar has all of my money? What chutzpah! How do I get it back?”
“Actually, you can get it back,” answered Master Israel with a twinkle in his eye. “If you can find a time when you ask him for a pinch of snuff, and he refuses, at that moment all of that lost wealth will be returned to you.”
Well Yossele rushed back to his village and, in fact, the richest man in town had only in the last several years come to his wealth. Previously, he had in fact been a beggar. So Yossele began to follow him around, learning everything he could about him. Yossele, of course, wanted to find out when he would be most stressed and thus least likely to respond to his request for a pinch of snuff.
He found the perfect time. It was just before Sabbath. The wealthy man was carrying several packages, hurrying home to his wife. Yossele hid in the bushes and right as he ran past on his way home he jumped out and asked innocently, “Could you spare a pinch of snuff?”
The wealthy man stopped, thought for a few seconds and then put down all of his packages and said, “If you ask, surely you must be in need.” He took out the snuff box and gave Yossele a pinch.
You can imagine Yossele’s distress. Still, Yossele was not prepared to give up. Over the next few months, Yossele accosted him in the rain, on the way to the bathroom, in the middle of prayer – at virtually every inopportune time – and always, the wealthy man would pause and say ‘If you ask surely you must be in need’, and then proceed to share with Yossele a pinch of snuff. Yossele was sinking deeper and deeper into hopelessness. What to do?
Finally, God seemed to send him one last golden opportunity. The wealthy man was to marry off his daughter. Of course, as was the town custom, all the poor people were invited to the wedding. Yossele came in his most unkempt clothes and waited for his opportunity. It came when the wealthy man, clearly overcome with emotion, took his daughter for the first dance which would begin the festivities after the ceremony. Right at that moment, Yossele went up to him and in an insolent voice demanded some snuff.
The wealthy man looked deep into his eyes –apparently understanding something- stopped the dance and said ever so gently: ‘If you ask surely you must be in need.’ He then took out his snuff box to give Yossele a pinch. Yossele was simply overwhelmed both by the out of this world giving of the wealthy man, and by the sadness of his own plight. The room started to spin, faster and faster, and Yossele fainted there on the dance floor.
When he came to after a few moments Yossele told the wealthy man and all the gathered guests the entire story. He told them of his previous wealth, and of his visit to Master Israel, and how he had lost his wealth by refusing to give the father of the bride a pinch of snuff on the fast day six years before. The wealthy man was greatly moved by Yossele’s story.
“I knew,” he said to the guests, “that my reversal of fortune was a gift. I simply had not idea why it was so. It seems to me that it is right that we now share in the all of the wealth.” With that he gave Yossele half of all his possessions. The entire town was uplifted by simply witnessing this astounding act of giving. It is told that until they both died, the town knew great peace, love and generosity, so much so that people from all over Europe would come visit what rapidly became known as Kefar Ha’ohavim, the Village of Lovers.
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Giving in Love: Part Nineteen: Marc Gafni
Giving in Love: Part Nineteen:
Marc Gafni
April 22, 2009
Give To Them a Story For those, who even after the last few blogs, are still unsatisfied and find it too painful to give in an undiscriminating way, I ask a simple question: how would you like to be asking for money on the street? Much as we honor the holy beggar, it certainly is not the easiest way to make a living. To be a lover, you have to engage in the spiritual practice of harchavat hadaat. Literally translated, this means the “expansion of consciousness.” Taught by 19th century mystical master Nachman of Bratzlav, it involves widening your narrow field of vision to incorporate more of the other person’s story. Say that someone smashes into your car from behind. You jump out of the car and furiously race to the door of the offending vehicle. Fuming, you open the door, see the other driver and exclaim, “MOM!!” Your anger cools in an instant because the faceless offender has recovered a personality. Mom! She has a story. When you open yourself up to her story, your feelings of love and empathy overcome your anger. You want to give and support her. You have been transformed into a lover. So when you encounter the beggars on the streets of Jerusalem, you have to open your self to their stories. Imagine them as a relative, a child, or a person on their dying day, or a person on their birth day! Vision in a millisecond the imaginary details to their story. Allow them to have face! this is what it means to realize your enlightenment – you can have the deepest kensho in the world, realize what the buddhists call emptiness, – if you cannnot deeply feel the place of another- the pain and the joy…. – then you are just lost in your narcissism -sadly frozen in the absolute. To learn that level of radical empathy is the true work of the divine human being who seeks realization or even just simple decency and integrity.
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Giving in Love: Part Eighteen: Marc Gafni
Giving in Love: Part Eighteen: Marc Gafni
April 20, 2009
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On Being Charitable and Being Choosy… “One Second,” I say before my tourist friend can run away, “Let me tell you a story of the Great Master Zusia of Onipol.” Zusia had a disciple who would visit him occasionally, and donate funds towards his support. The disciple became very wealthy. At some point, the disciple discovered that Zusia himself had a master whom he would go visit, the Master of Mezritch. Reasoned the disciple, surely the master is greater than the student. And with that he stopped visiting and supporting Zusia, switching his allegiance to the master. From that point on his business began to fail, getting worse and worse as time went by. Realizing this was no coincidence, he went to visit his original master Zusia. “Holy master,” he said, “surely even you agree that your teacher from Mezritch is greater than you. So why should I not be allowed to give my support to the higher master!?” Zusia responded with a twinkle in his eye. “You see, my son, God is our shadow. His dealings with us are but an imitation of our dealings with others. As long as you gave without judging first to see if the person was worthy or not, as long as you would support someone as undeserving as Zusia, the universe imitated you and was willing to support you without checking exactly what you deserved. But once you became selective and began to support only those who you thought deserved it, the universe also became more selective in choosing where it send its support.”
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Giving in Love: Part Seventeen: Marc Gafni April 19, 2009
Giving in Love: Part Seventeen:
Marc Gafni
April 19, 2009 There is a teaching that if you have a hundred different coins, you should give them to a hundred different people. Even though the money will have little real life impact on the recipient’s economic reality, the very act of giving to every hand you meet could have real life impact on your reality. Even small change makes for change. Simply put, giving is at least as much for the giver as it is for the receiver. ‘The rich need the poor more than the poor need the rich. Unfortunately, neither is conscious of it.”
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Giving in Love: Part 16: Marc Gafni
Giving in Love: Part 16: Marc Gafni
April 16, 2009
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One of the most counter intuitive dictums of Hebrew wisdom reads “Greater is one who does out of command –(metzuveh) than one who does even though he is not commanded (Eino metzuveh).” Logically, the opposite should be true. Is not the one who does good because of his own moral feeling superior to the one who gives out of a sense of obligation. Respond the wisdom masters – No!
Imagine that one person encountered a poor man on the street and was greatly moved by her plight. Even though he had given her ten percent of his income to charity that year- his heart was so moved that he gave him a hundred dollars. The next year the same two people encounter each other on the street. The poor man is still poor.
This time however our Good Samaritan is in a foul mood and barely has room in his heart to notice the poor man. However he remembers that he has not yet fulfilled the Tzedaka – ‘Just’ Giving – obligation of ten percent of his income. So he perfunctorily gives him a hundred dollars out of a sense of obligation.
Which act of giving was higher? Primarily the second. For in the first case the giving welled up out of his separate sense of self. I who am fortunate will give to you who are not. However in the second case his giving welled up from an essential connection between him and the poor person.
He felt Metzuveh. Usually translated as ‘commanded,’ Metzuveh also has the sense of Tzavtah, meaning ‘To be together with’. In that light let’s re-read the dictum in a beautiful way. “Greater is one who gives out of a sense of Metzuveh –interconnectivity- non dual realization – than one who gives out of sense of’ ‘eyno metzuveh’- disconnection and alienation.
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Giving in Love: Part Ten: Marc Gafni
Giving in Love: Part Ten: Marc Gafni
April 4, 2009
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I remember one evening when my second son, Yair, first asked me for a new bicycle that I could not afford. It hurt. I thought about it all night. Had I pursued other directions in life, I would be able to easily provide him with what he wanted.
Although I knew full well that the gifts of the spirit I had for him were infinitely more valuable than those momentary material gifts, it still hurt. And that’s okay. We’ve all had moments where our hearts crack a little because we can not give our beloved every thing they want or even need. It is a bittersweet hurt which reminds you just how large your love really is.
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Giving in Love: Part Nine: Marc Gafni
Giving in Love: Part Nine: Marc Gafni
April 2, 2009
Dedicated to Lord Bruce and Lady Mary
One of the great Biblical loves is that of Jacob for Rachel. The scene where Jacob, having left fame family and fortune behind, meets Rachel at the well is well known. He loves her, kisses her and cries. Love and kisses we understand, but why does Jacob cry? One teacher, 11TH century sage Rashi, from Northern France, explains that Jacob cried because he had no presents for Rachel. It didn’t matter whether she needed the presents or not. When you love you have an enormous desire to give. That, for the Hebrew mystics, is the great litmus test of loving. For the average person, it is painful to give something up. For the lover, it is painful when she feels she has nothing to give. The lover longs to incarnate her love in gifts – small deeds filled with great love. Lao Tzu captured it so well when he said in his typical understated style, “Kindness in words creates confidence; kindness in thinking creates profoundness; but only kindness in giving creates love.”
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Giving in Love: Part Eight: Marc Gafni
Giving in Love: Part Eight: Marc Gafni
April 1, 2009
Love is as Love Does
Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.
Ursula K. LeGuin, The Lathe of Heaven
Loving and giving are inextricably bound up. The great medieval philosopher Maimonides teaches that to love God is to know the divine in both world and self. Maimonides understands well that to know and not to love is not to know. But he goes one step further; to love and not to do is not to love. Love is as love does.
So when Maimonides lists what it might mean to love God, he talks about a broad range of simple acts of goodness that we do for other people. Helping the poor, rejoicing with the bride and groom, escorting the dead at a funeral, and the list goes on and on. Small deeds, simple acts of kindness – that is what makes me a lover of God.
People are God incarnate in this world. Each person is a different face of God. To love people by being a giver is to love God. There is no great deed of loving God. There are only small deeds of giving to people – done with great love!
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Giving in Love: Marc Gafni: Part Six
Giving in Love: Marc Gafni: Part Six
March 30, 2009
To love is to be committed to the growth of the other. This always requires at least the temporary ability for self-transcendence.
We are divinely hardwired for giving as self-transcendence. God in the meditations of the mystics reveals herself as a giver, not a taker.
The very formation of the world is motivated according to the Kabbalah by a divine love expressed in an infinite desire to give.
If there is any need in God – it is the need to be a giver. Our own deeply felt need to give is our overwhelming desire to incarnate the God point in our lives.
To give is to be like God.
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Giving in Love: Marc Gafni: Part Five
Giving in Love: Marc Gafni: Part Five
March 29, 2009
The Baron Loves The giving necessary in love is made clear in a great folktale. There was once a fisherman who caught a large pike. Seeing what a substantial catch this was, he says out loud, “I won’t eat this fish. He is such a great catch that I will take him to the Baron. The Baron loves Pike.” Hearing this the fish breathes a sigh of relief. “There’s some hope for me yet!” The pike is brought to the manor house. At the gate the guard asks, “What do you have?” “A large Pike!” “Wonderful,” responds the guard. “The Baron loves Pike.” The fish is by now sweating profusely and gasping for breath but he is relived. A few more minutes, and he will be safe with the Baron. The Baron loves Pike. The Pike is brought into the kitchen; The Baron himself enters with a big smile on his face. “I love Pike,” says the Baron. As the fish, with its ebbing strength, wiggles around to ask for water, he hears the Baron say, “Cut of the tail and head and slice it down the middle.” In his last breath of terrible despair, the fish cries out “Why did you lie? You don’t love Pike – you love yourself!”
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