Essays
Your Portion in the Torah: Hebrew Birthdates as a Tool for Awareness and Insight
Reuven Goldfarb shares his ideas about the existence of a significant link between one's date of birth and the weekly portion.
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Open Forms & Closed Forms: Poetry, Liturgy, & Nusach
Reuven Goldfarb believes that the emergence of a Jewish renewal orthodoxy is not an oxymoron because just as in poetry, or in any of the arts, new forms can become static and imitative of past experiences, rather than creatively transforming them.
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Walking to the Kotel
Reuven Goldfarb feels that the place where he stands to pray supports him well as he climbs to the peak of his soul.
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My Platoon
Reuven Goldfarb feels that we're like a platoon, a unit in an army. and that we besiege the fortress of heaven with prayer. The poem is set on his former college campus that then segues into a synagogue quorum for prayer.
Poems
Eighth Night
Reuven Goldfarb describes how his son is more at peace breathing in the aura of his family home than by other external endeavors..
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Masculine Reticence
Reuven Goldfarb chronicles much his growth in Judaism, from renewal to traditional observance, triggered, as is often the case, by a death in the family.
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A charmed visit to Hebron: Can coexistence return?
Reuven Goldfarb shares memories and yearnings to his trip to Hebron in 1969 with Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Chaim Cohen.
Poems
Ozzie Smith Retires
Reuven Goldfarb recalls Osborne Earl Smith was a baseball shortstop who played in Major League Baseball for the San Diego Padres and St. Louis Cardinals from 1978 to 1996. On June 19, 1996, Smith tearfully said he would retire after the Cardinals’ final game of the season.
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An Open Letter To Email Solicitors Who Are Using Mass Mailing Techniques To Ensnare Customers
Reuven Goldfarb takes task with people who exploit people and pander to their weaknesses and to their neuroses
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Reb Zalman Among the Sufis
Reuven Goldfarb with the assistance of Eliyahu (Khaled) McLean transcribes the experience of Rabbis Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Reuven Goldfarb and Chaim Cohen with the Sufis in Hebron.