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Love or Die #2: A conversation series with Marc Gafni - Radical Kabbalah

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Cohen's Clarification of Desire

Leonard Cohen's work was sort of maybe a clarification of the shame rather than something shameless. You can feel in all of his songs this very deep relationship to desire beyond shame. Shame doesn't live in Cohen songs. He actually gets, but he can't quite clarify it. But what he was reaching for was this clarification of desire. That's when David played the secret chord that pleased the Lord.

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