http://reuvengoldfarb.com poet, author, balladist, rhapsodist, baseball aficionado, rhymer, writer and student of the kabbalah. Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:24:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://reuvengoldfarb.com/essays/the-talking-donkey-and-the-braying-minyan/ http://reuvengoldfarb.com/essays/the-talking-donkey-and-the-braying-minyan/#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:21:28 +0000 Reuven Goldfarb http://reuvengoldfarb.com/?p=27 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 my custom to give over a few words on the parashah at such times, I wrote [...]]]> http://reuvengoldfarb.com/essays/the-talking-donkey-and-the-braying-minyan/feed/ 0 http://reuvengoldfarb.com/essays/baseball-kabbalah/ http://reuvengoldfarb.com/essays/baseball-kabbalah/#comments Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:23:04 +0000 Reuven Goldfarb http://reuvengoldfarb.com/essays/baseball-kabbalah/ For Gerry, athlete and scholar, my first teacher in baseball “Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the field.” Deuteronomy 28:3 “Baseball is good for ya, little reuben.” – Cinquefoil, in Chapter 18 of Michael  Chabon’s Summerland My friend Shelley, a couples and family counselor, once told me about [...]]]> http://reuvengoldfarb.com/essays/baseball-kabbalah/feed/ 0 http://reuvengoldfarb.com/about/literary-biography/ http://reuvengoldfarb.com/about/literary-biography/#comments Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:03:00 +0000 Reuven Goldfarb http://reuvengoldfarb.com/about/literary-biography/ 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: poetsprogress@gmail.com; 04-697-4105 Int’l phone 510-868-0272 Education Received S’micha from Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi as Morenu, Maggid, [...]]]> http://reuvengoldfarb.com/about/literary-biography/feed/ 0 http://reuvengoldfarb.com/essays/significant-synchronicities/ http://reuvengoldfarb.com/essays/significant-synchronicities/#comments Fri, 30 Mar 2007 06:49:21 +0000 Reuven Goldfarb http://reuvengoldfarb.com/essays/significant-synchronicities/ 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.   Yom Shishi, 11 Nisan, 5767 / Friday, March 30th, 2007               As I began preparing for Passover last week, I recalled [...]]]> http://reuvengoldfarb.com/essays/significant-synchronicities/feed/ 0 http://reuvengoldfarb.com/about/reuven-goldfarb/ http://reuvengoldfarb.com/about/reuven-goldfarb/#comments Sat, 03 Dec 2005 19:27:18 +0000 Reuven Goldfarb http://reuvengoldfarb.com/?p=3 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 School as well as Hebrew School at Ahavat Israel and the East Midwood Jewish Center, [...]]]> http://reuvengoldfarb.com/about/reuven-goldfarb/feed/ 0 http://reuvengoldfarb.com/poems/seventy-two-virgins/ http://reuvengoldfarb.com/poems/seventy-two-virgins/#comments Tue, 02 Apr 2002 05:44:10 +0000 Reuven Goldfarb http://reuvengoldfarb.com/award-winning-poems/seventy-two-virgins/ - an arrow in the heart of the Intifada - “Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect….”  Keats, “The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream” When you complete your mission and arrive in the place of Judgment, you will be greeted by seventy-two beautiful virgins who won’t like you. They’ll talk [...]]]> http://reuvengoldfarb.com/poems/seventy-two-virgins/feed/ 0 http://reuvengoldfarb.com/essays/your-portion-in-the-torah-hebrew-birthdates-as-a-tool-for-awareness-and-insight/ http://reuvengoldfarb.com/essays/your-portion-in-the-torah-hebrew-birthdates-as-a-tool-for-awareness-and-insight/#comments Mon, 27 Dec 1999 06:43:11 +0000 Reuven Goldfarb http://reuvengoldfarb.com/essays/your-portion-in-the-torah-hebrew-birthdates-as-a-tool-for-awareness-and-insight/ “We resonate with the parashah, whether we know it or not, whether we read it or not. It’s an underlying structure of reality that all Jews resonate with. – Arlene Goldbard, in the name of Rabbi David Wolfe-Blank, z’l   Torah tzivu lanu Moshe, morasha kehillat Ya’akov (The Torah that Moses transmitted to us is [...]]]> http://reuvengoldfarb.com/essays/your-portion-in-the-torah-hebrew-birthdates-as-a-tool-for-awareness-and-insight/feed/ 0 http://reuvengoldfarb.com/poems/walking-to-the-kotel/ http://reuvengoldfarb.com/poems/walking-to-the-kotel/#comments Sun, 21 Jun 1998 05:31:49 +0000 Reuven Goldfarb http://reuvengoldfarb.com/award-winning-poems/walking-to-the-kotel/                                                            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 beats a steady pulse, but my mind races this way and that, following after every [...]]]> http://reuvengoldfarb.com/poems/walking-to-the-kotel/feed/ 0 http://reuvengoldfarb.com/poems/my-platoon/ http://reuvengoldfarb.com/poems/my-platoon/#comments Wed, 14 Jan 1998 05:26:15 +0000 Reuven Goldfarb http://reuvengoldfarb.com/award-winning-poems/my-platoon/ 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 collar loose, his tie askew, bellowing, “YES SIR!” so everyone would know what he thought [...]]]> http://reuvengoldfarb.com/poems/my-platoon/feed/ 0 http://reuvengoldfarb.com/poems/for-michaels-coming/ http://reuvengoldfarb.com/poems/for-michaels-coming/#comments Wed, 30 Apr 1969 05:23:10 +0000 Reuven Goldfarb http://reuvengoldfarb.com/award-winning-poems/for-michaels-coming/ “All creation groans together in torment.” 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 “the extra man in the room” - some of this is derived from other people - analogous, indeed, identical to, many other… to [...]]]> http://reuvengoldfarb.com/poems/for-michaels-coming/feed/ 0