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		<title>The Talking Donkey and the Braying Minyan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reuven Goldfarb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[INTRODUCTION In advance of the Aquarian Minyan’s 36th anniversary celebration Shabbaton at Chochmat HaLev in Berkeley on June 25-26-27, 2010, Rabbi Diane Elliot asked me to prepare something for the Friday night service of 8 to 10 minutes duration.  As it is &#8230; <a href="http://reuvengoldfarb.com/essays/the-talking-donkey-and-the-braying-minyan/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Baseball Kabbalah</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reuven Goldfarb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Gerry, athlete and scholar, my first teacher in baseball &#8220;Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field.&#8221; Deuteronomy 28:3 &#8220;Baseball is good for ya, little reuben.&#8221; &#8211; Cinquefoil, in Chapter 18 of &#8230; <a href="http://reuvengoldfarb.com/essays/baseball-kabbalah/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Literary Biography</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuven Goldfarb poet; essayist; fiction writer; storyteller; literary, social, and cultural critic; journalist; editor; teacher; and spiritual counselor. Residences Keren HaYesod 128, Artists Quarter, Tzfat 13201, Israel; Berkeley address (summer only): 2020 Essex Street, Berkeley, CA 94703; Other contact info: &#8230; <a href="http://reuvengoldfarb.com/about/literary-biography/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Significant Synchronicities</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 06:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The convergence of Passover in 1943 with two other significant events  - a scientific discovery made in Basel and a civilian uprising in Warsaw -  draws the author into pondering their connections. &#160; Yom Shishi, 11 Nisan, 5767 / Friday, &#8230; <a href="http://reuvengoldfarb.com/essays/significant-synchronicities/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Reuven Goldfarb</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2005 19:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[poet; essayist; fiction writer; storyteller; literary, social, and cultural critic; journalist; editor; teacher; and spiritual counselor.  Reuven Goldfarb was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He attended P.S 193 (Gil Hodges School), Andries Hudde J.H.S., and James Madison High &#8230; <a href="http://reuvengoldfarb.com/about/reuven-goldfarb/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Seventy-two Virgins</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2002 05:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reuven Goldfarb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[- an arrow in the heart of the Intifada - &#8220;Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect&#8230;.&#8221;  Keats, &#8220;The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream&#8221; When you complete your mission and arrive in the place of &#8230; <a href="http://reuvengoldfarb.com/poems/seventy-two-virgins/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Your Portion in the Torah: Hebrew Birthdates as a Tool for Awareness and Insight</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 1999 06:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reuven Goldfarb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We resonate with the parashah, whether we know it or not, whether we read it or not. It&#8217;s an underlying structure of reality that all Jews resonate with. &#8211; Arlene Goldbard, in the name of Rabbi David Wolfe-Blank, z&#8217;l &#160; &#8230; <a href="http://reuvengoldfarb.com/essays/your-portion-in-the-torah-hebrew-birthdates-as-a-tool-for-awareness-and-insight/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Walking to the Kotel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 1998 05:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[                                                           I have some rough edges.  I go down to daven to smooth them out, sometimes in the embrace of a minyan, sometimes with the melting fires of a heart open to G d. The center of my heart &#8230; <a href="http://reuvengoldfarb.com/poems/walking-to-the-kotel/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>My Platoon</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 1998 05:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Reuven Goldfarb</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At Lafayette, we stood and marched in formation on the Quad, carrying M-1 rifles, wearing olive-drab woolen jackets and trousers, spit-shined shoes, cotton khaki shirts, bright brass medallions, and visored army caps. John Pearl stood beside me, mouthing off, his &#8230; <a href="http://reuvengoldfarb.com/poems/my-platoon/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>For Michael&#8217;s Coming</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 1969 05:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;All creation groans together in torment.&#8221; Hindu saying Is Tim Leary a sadhu? And other unanswered questions, like, do mountains move east to west as people around a table do? Or is &#8220;the extra man in the room&#8221; - some &#8230; <a href="http://reuvengoldfarb.com/poems/for-michaels-coming/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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