Rabbi Meir Goldberg
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Rabbi Meir
Goldberg is the Director of the Maimonides Leaders Fellowship
Program at Rutgers University, the state college of New Jersey.
Together with his partner at Rutgers, Rabbi Yehoshua Lewis, they run a
Jewish outreach program on campus. Rabbi Goldberg has previously been
involved in outreach efforts in Margate, and Twin Rivers, NJ. Rabbi Goldberg was born and raised in Far Rockaway, NY and studied in Yeshiva Beth Moshe of Scranton, PA, Yeshiva Yagdil Torah in Israel and the Beth Medrash Gevoha in Lakewood, NJ. In
Lakewood he was a member of their advanced Kollel program for four
years. Rabbi Goldberg enjoys hanging out with Jewish college students,
and discussing Torah, football, and urban culture, with said students.
He and his wife Estie (nee Schreiber) live in Lakewood, NJ together
with their three rambunctious children, Akiva, Yitzie, and Tzvi Hirsch.
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Inspiration in Illness
I have a relative who was a very healthy man, struck tragically by a very rare disorder that has left him without the use of his legs. I was wondering if there are any texts that deal specifically with the…
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Sharing Wine and Bread on Shabbat
Is there a religious significance to the sharing of bread and wine at the Shabbat Meal? We make a special set of blessings on wine, called Kiddush, at the Shabbat table as well as a blessing on the bread. Kiddush…
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Obligation of Shema
Who is obligated/required to say the shema (The prayer of “Hear O’ Israel”)? A man is obligated once at night and once during the day. A woman should try to say Shema in the morning if she has the time…
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Proving G-d’s existence
How do we know that G-d exists? If it is our tradition that proves it…then how do we know which tradition is correct? There are several ways to demonstrate his existence. First, one should look at the incredible precision that…
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Moses’s name
We are taught that Moses was named by Pharoh’s daughter from the Egyptian word Moses meaning draw from the water. Are we ever told of the Hebrew name given by Yocheved when he was born? Answer: We are told that…
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All Heb. vs. Heb.-Eng.
To whom it may concern, I have just started to pray everyday, since early October, three times a day using the Bernbaum prayer book. This is a Hebrew-English prayer book. How does one know when to go to a all…
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Menorah – Lighting from the Right
Why do we put the candle on the right and light then from left to right. Answer: In Judaism, the right side is always primary. This may be so because mystically, the right side represents G-d’s attribute of mercy which…
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Shabbat Services
Why are there more than 1 torah in the ark? Besides when one reaches the end, when are the others used? Why are there just a few prayers where body language is important during the prayer? (I just returned from…