Poems
THE MOON DISDAINS UNWELCOME ADVANCES
A personae poem inspired by NASA exploding arocket into the moon to see if there is any water or ice below the surface.
Essays
Anywhere But Here & Now
Reuven Goldfarb believes that elements of the folk imagination that have merely been shunted aside and temporarily displaced by the most prestigious doctrine of the moment, remain as inherent parts of the national psyche and take other forms in other lands, despite the presence of an official ecclesiastical establishment. They cannot be killed or transformed into something else. They are with us forever.
Essays
Honoring Mailer as a Jew and not only an American
Reuven Goldfarb shares his thoughts about the radical and iconoclastic speculation on the nature of the Deity hat exemplified Norman Mailer.
Poems
The American Game
Reuven Goldfarb connects the dots between Chico Mendes, Pan Am Flight 103 (the Lockerbie bombing) and the first game of the 1955 World Series between the Dodgers and the Yankees where at the top of the eighth inning with two outs, Jackie Robinson risks 270 feet of progress on the base paths with a daring steal of home, beating Whitey Ford's pitch to the plate.
Essays
Significant Synchronicities
Reuven Goldfarb prays that we will soon lift the Fifth Cup to the many journeys we have taken and the ones yet to be made, by all of humankind, and by all forms of life, to the time of our true and lasting liberation.
Essays
How’s Your Hebrew? My Life in Ulpan
Reuven Goldfarb has labored, through all these decades, to find his voice and perfect my mode of expression using all the resources available to him in the only language he knows well, and with whose extensive literature he is familiar. He shares his thoughts about learning Hebrew.
Essays
The Future of Renewal?
Reuven Goldfarb speculates about the internal inter-personal issues, especially those that interfere with our collective decision-making process. Reuven takes on the issue of territoriality, as perhaps, internally, as no group is immune from potentially schismatic conflict, or as Reuven coins it: "Elbow Room" or "Liebensraum."
Essays
Baseball Kabbalah
Reuven Goldfarb believes that players, fanatics, and worshippers alike - are blessed with moments of transcendence and vindication, a reward for their commitment and justification for all their toil and pain.