… 21, edited by Jennie Cohen.

The entire essay appeared in my booklet, Trains of Thought:  Essays, Articles, and Features (Berkeley:  AGADA Books, 2008).  Earlier versions and excerpts can be found on various websites, such as HavurahShirHadash.org and AscentofSafed.com .  We endeavor to make this web site’s version the most up-to-date and complete.

Biographical note

Reuven Goldfarb grew up in Brooklyn and rooted for the Dodgers, under the tutelage of his …

written by Reuven Goldfarb

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 30 th , 2007

 

            As I began preparing for Passover last week, I recalled that we are in the midst of twin …

written by Reuven Goldfarb

“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 the heritage of the community of Jacob)

Devarim, 33:4 …

written by Reuven Goldfarb