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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Helping the Poor Enjoy Passover
What is “ma’os chittim” and why do we make this contribution before Passover? Answer: Since God does not want you to enjoy the Passover without helping the poor enjoy it as well, the Rabbis created a custom that Jews should…
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Judaism and Walking
In today’s world of health, there seems to be a consensus that walking is very good for a person. Maimonides had many good ideas on health issues. What did he, or any of the other great scholars, have to say…
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The G-d of the Jews
Do you think that the G-d of the Jews is the same as that of the Christians? I ask this because some Christians bow down and pray to Jesus, Mary, angels, and the disciples; and some even believe that Jesus…
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Changing Your Name
Is there any position taken by the Torah which forbids the changing of one’s name? Being that Abram was changed to Abraham, Jacob to Israel, etc., it would appear to be an innocuous act, unless the ‘Jewishness’ of the name…
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What Angels Look Like
Throughout the Torah, in what form do angels appear to different people? My guess is either in human form or symbolic. I have never seen an angel depicted as a cherub or any other Christian symbol in anything Jewish. I…
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Debt
Is it against G-d to have a debt? It certainly isn’t against G-d to have debt. However it is against G-d to have debt that you don’t pay off. Rabbi Meir Goldberg
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“You did not make me a woman”
The Torah uses positive expressions as much as possible. Why is it that the blessing that is said in the morning reads “You are blessed .. for You did not make me a Woman” and not “… for You made…
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Revenge and Restraint
My car was vandalized, and I’m extremely frustrated by the whole matter. I believe the perpetrator is a disgruntled neighbor of mine. I contacted the police, filed a report, but there were not witnesses to there’s not much that can…