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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The “cut off” soul
Leviticus 7:27 “Any person who eats any blood, that soul shall be cut off from its people.” Does “cut off” imply that a Jewish soul can be murdered? It means that it is spiritually cut off from it’s root in…
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Expecting Miracles
I have a disease which I was told that there is no treatment for. Can I expect some miracles? I heard a lot about nation miracles and I experienced many individual miracles in my life. I feel terrible about your…
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Wearing a Kittel
My son recently gave me a kittel. What days should I wear this? Should I wear it to Shul on the evening of Yom Kippur and to services the next day? Also, are there any other times that I should…
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Basketball on Shabbos
Are you alowed to play basketball on shabbos? Assuming there is a kosher eruv, it isn’t technically forbidden, however, it isn’t in the spirit of shabbos to play ball. Rav Moshe Feinstein approved of the eruv in Kew Gardens Hills,…
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Married couple walking together
Why do Hasidic wives and children walk behind their husband and father? I’ve never seen Hasidic children walk behind their father on purpose. Most Hasidic women also walk together with their husbands as well. The few women that don’t, do…
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English Translation of the Torah
I am just curious to know what English Translation of the Tenach (Torah, Prophets, and Writings) is the ‘most reliable/accurate/faithful’? The Stone edition from Artscroll is your best bet. You can purchase it here from Artscroll.
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10 commandments, 10 utterences
What is the connection between the 10 commandments and the 10 utterences ? I suppose your question is if there is a connection between the ten commandments and the ten utterances that G-d used to create the world. Perhaps one…
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Passover Events
When we celebrate the Passover how does this correspond to the actual event of Moses leading the children of Israel out of Egypt? (Ex: is the first day of this period when G-D told the Israelites to put the blood…