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Reuven Goldfarb Studying the Holy Scriptures

Writer, editor, and teacher, Reuven Goldfarb has published poetry, stories, essays, articles, and Divrei Torah in scores of periodicals and anthologies and won several awards.  He served the Aquarian Minyan and received s’micha from Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi.  He and his wife Yehudit host classes, workshops, and a weekly Talmud shiur in their Galilee home.

Reuven and Yehudit Goldfarb at the July 2005 Kallah in Johnstown, PA U.S.A.

Memories of sunnier, more hopeful times, when signs of peace flickered

Reflections on the capacity of  people to live up to the revelations they have received 

Recollections of spell-binding journeys of kaleidoscopic colors & spiritual exaltation

Current Insights & Rhapsodies

Poems, Ballads, Rhymes and Reasons
Eulogies

FOR ZEV DAVIS

  “The death of the poet was kept from his poems.” — W. H. Auden   The pen has dropped, the papers unrolled, his formal cadences splintered and old. Unpolished stanzas, inexact rhyme, jagged metrics Read more…

Poems

RESPONSIBLE ADULT

Everybody’s looking for that Responsible Adult; and when that Responsible Adult walks into the room, everyone will know it — even the nervous dogs that shy when you make a move.   They slink, so Read more…

Poems

THE SCHOOL BELL SOUNDS

The school bell’s rapid clanging sends shivers  through my thighs and tingles through my testicles.  The smell of the chalkboard fills my nostrils, like the white dust flying free  of the gray felt erasers I Read more…

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What Do We Know?

Reuven Goldfarb, co-editor, reads excerpts from "What Do We Know? The Carlebach Anthology" for the Aquarian Minyan Author Night.