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writings and teachings of Rabbi Goldie Milgram
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Category |
Date Added |
Article |
| Holy Days | 8/06 |
Dear Rabbi Milgram:
Daniel Schwartz
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| Life Cycle | 7/06 |
What Does Judaism Have to Say about Organ Donation? http://www.beliefnet.com/story/196/story_19662_1.html Article above appears on Beliefnet. This can be read along with my letter exchange with Rabbi Avi Shafran of Agudath Israel of America on the topic here |
| Travelogue | 4/20/06 | Rebbe and Hubbatzin on the Road Travelogue, Israel adventures and teachings on the term hafokh from the Exodus narrative and Purim megillah. |
| Sound Files | 2/06 |
Melodies by R'Goldie for
prayers found in the Prayer chapter of her newest book, Meaning and
Mitzvah: 1. Modeh/Modah Ani 2. Kadosh Kadosh Kadosh |
| Healing | 4/6/06 | Focusing and Judaism: Dr. Gene Gendlin has discovered a method for attaining what the Torah describes as "The Still Small Voice", this article shows how Focusing Technique can help us develop an a satisfying inner and inter-personal spiritual attention. |
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Healing |
12/05 |
New web site section for the Guild of Jewish Healthcare Professionals |
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Interfaith Teaching, |
4/06/06 |
Articles written as
guest rabbi for Christian clergy magazine called Living Pulpit: |
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Curriculum |
9/5/05 |
CAJE Rapid Response Hurricane Curriculum: The Katrina Disaster |
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Life Cycle |
11/2/04 |
Doctoral thesis Cross-cultural analysis of rites of passage for youth undertaken by R'Goldie in preparation for writing Make Your Own Bar/Bat Mitzvah. Looks at anthropology, psychology, economics, theology, bible, and history. |
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Newspaper |
9/5/05 |
Living Judaism is a column that provides regular guidance about
finding meaning for living through Judaism. Readers gain skills in
understand how to achieve emotional satisfaction, intellectual expansion
and spiritual connection through living as a Jew.
http://www.pjvoice.com/v4/440judaism.html How Are Jews Like
Baking Powder?
http://www.pjvoice.com/v3/040judaism.html Is Judaism The
Religion of Love?
http://www.pjvoice.com/v2/judaism.html The Diversity Challenge:
What Kind are You?
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Stories |
7/13/04 |
Rebbe on the Road:
Volga River, Russia |
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Life Cycle |
5/14/04 |
Intergenerational Yizkor Story, explaining practice of yarzeit candle via special moment with R'Goldie's mom, who has Alzheimers, one of her sons, and a guest from Russia. Written for UJC Orchard. |
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Life Cycle |
4/30/04 |
Deepen your
understanding of the importance of balancing work and study and why the
mystic Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai is associated with
Lag b'Omer. |
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Holy Days |
4/5/04 |
Rebbe on the Road:
Passover and South Africa 2004 |
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Holy Days |
3/1/04 |
The Masks Jews Wear: Reb Goldie's Purim Guide |
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Halachah |
2/10/04 |
Why do we hang a mezuzah at an angle? |
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Stories |
1/4/04 |
Spiritual travelogue, Budapest. Covers teaching a bar/bat mitzvah educator retreat for educators from India, Czech Republic, Serbia, Croatia, Bulgaria, etc. Some quite surprising moments. |
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Holy Days |
8/13/03 |
Timeless Tisha B'Av, a container for infinite grief, a broken kaddish. |
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Stories |
8/6/03 |
Spiritual
travelogue Berlin, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Valencia and |
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Halachah |
8/13/03 |
Reb Goldie's responsa on both gay and lesbian marriage and the issue of ordaining of homosexual clergy. |
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Leadership |
4/22/03 |
Principles of Rebbetude. What is this old/new kind of rabbinate that builds vital communities, treasures depth of study, deepens practice and restores spirituality to Jewish life? This paper was written by Reb Goldie for a conference sponsored by Bard College to describe the ethics, principles and philosophy of the rabbinate which she recommends and to which she aspires. This link takes you to the site of Ohalah.org where the paper has been published. |
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Life Cycle |
3/1/03 |
Announcing the B-Mitzvah [R]evolution! An entire site devoted to Bar/Bat Mitzvah preparation for students and parents. Reb Goldie is also available to teach workshops and retreats based on this effort for communities. |
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Stories |
2/8/03 |
Spiritual travelogue of South Eastern US and South Africa, teaching tour and visits to sites of interest. |
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Life Cycle |
1/2/03 |
Breathing while in labor - a Jewish meditation model. |
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Life Cycle |
1/2/03 |
Why do we not say mazel tov to someone who is pregnant? What does one traditionally say? |
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Holy Days |
1/1/03 |
Guide to creating a Tu BiShevat Seder (and story). |
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Meditation |
1/1/03 |
Please be careful when picking study sites and teachers. Here is a carefully researched article by Rabbi Josh Simon about the Kaballah Center. If you have newer experience that contradicts this posting, please send. |
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Holy Days |
11/1/02 |
"Reframing Hanukkah Gelt" joins a collection of eight practices to help spiritually vitalize your Hanukkah. |
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Shabbat |
9/9/02 |
Grasping Shabbat's Mystical and Erotic Spirituality, An Introduction. [Previously posted, link now repaired] |
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Stories |
9/10/02 |
Romance and Challenge at a Hassidic Wedding |
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Holy Days |
6/4/02 |
New and Revised
Teachings, Stories, Experiences for |
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Life Cycle |
7/29/02 |
Creating a Jewish ritual for a miscarriage. |
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Stories |
9/9/02 |
Summer 2002 Spiritual Travelogue of our Southwest Trip |
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Prayer |
6/24/02 |
A home ritual to go with lighting a yartzeit candle in memory of a loved one, for the anniversary of a death or at yizkor. |
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Torah |
6/21/02 |
Making Sense of the Red Heifer Parsha. The Torah portion takes seriously how hard it is to come into contact with a corpse. Can we reclaim anything from this for contemporary Judaism? Maybe yes. |
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Life Cycle |
6/21/02 |
Suicide is so hard to cope with for everyone who immediately knew the
person, including the rabbi. |
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Life Cycle |
5/15/02 |
Guide to Creating a Deeply Spiritual Jewish Wedding |
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Life Cycle |
5/15/02 |
Working with the tradition: Bringing a child into the covenant: Baby naming and circumcision rituals |
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Holy Days |
5/15/02 |
Yizkor: Honoring the Memory of Loved Ones |
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Holy Days |
4/16/02 |
Preparing the Heart and Mind for Shavuot |
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Holy Days |
01/02/02 |
Fruit for Thought: Understanding Tu Bi-Shevat and mystical rituals associated with it, also a real-life Tu Bi-Shevat story from our trip to South Africa. |
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All |
12/5/01 |
Ten "Reb"binnic Guidelines for Spiritual Survival during this time of exasperating crisis and trauma at home and in the Middle East. |
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Holy Days |
11/18/01 |
What is menorah mysticism? And the Kabbalists' significance of colors for the candles and the sephirot. |
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Life Cycle |
11/18/01 |
Aaron Roffman's
family sponsored Reb Goldie as a scholar-in-residence during his bar
mitzvah weekend at Adath Shalom, a conservative congregation near
Parsippany, N.J. |
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Prayer |
9/16/01 |
Full Text of 911 Service of Consolation and Hope just developed and offered here in for our neighborhood in Jersey City. |
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Holy Days |
9/5/01 |
Wisdom ritual for Shabbat Sukkot |
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Holy Days |
9/5/01 |
Dancing with the Torah on
Simchat Torah, |
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Life Cycle |
8/22/01 |
A
ritual guide for
dedicating a Jewish home |
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Bibliography |
8/21/01 |
Updated and annotated bibliography on Jewish spirituality. |
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Holy Days |
7/20/01 |
How you can associate the welcoming in of the ancestors ritual on Sukkot (Ushpizin) with the directions of the compass. |
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Shabbat and |
06/24/01 |
Model Program: Work and Sacred Time. A workshop you can run yourself in your own community looks at time, sacredness, hatzi kaddish, multi-tasking and your life. |
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Holy Days |
04/3/01 |
The Spirituality of Fear: A Study Guide Drawing on Jewish Sources about Fear drawn from the book of Exodus. |
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Holy Days |
04/03/01 |
Background on Rosh Chodesh and Reb Goldie's approach to leading a meeting of a Rosh Chodesh group |
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Life Cycle |
02/13/01 |
Spiritual Mentoring
for Couples Part I: Cultivating
Spiritual Intimacy. |
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Mitzvot |
5/21/01 |
Keeping Kosher: What would it mean to reclaim this as a spiritual practice? How do environmental issues relate to keeping kosher? Is action indicated? |
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Torah, |
5/21/01 |
Reproductive Bio-ethics. Reb Goldie's rabbinical students at The Academy for Jewish Religion respond to teen questions on difficult ethics issues such as fetal reduction, artificial insemination, adoptive children looking for their biological parents and much more. |
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Life Cycle |
02/06/01 |
Under a grant from
the Nathan Cummings Foundation, Reb Goldie is developing a special new
section of resources for adding spirituality to the bar/bat mitzvah
experience. |
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Stories |
02/06/01 |
Grandpa Sam's Silly But Sadly True Bar Mitzvah Story |
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Prayer |
12/17/00 |
Spirituality of Tefillin: A meditation on relationships to be done with or without tefillin, also two humorous tefillin stories. |
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Mitzvot |
11/30/00 |
Play with a full deck - Reb Goldie's page of mitzvah cards helps readers take a deep accounting of your life from a Jewish point of view. |
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Holy Days |
11/30/00 |
Reclaiming the dreidl, a game for adults and children that can actually advance your spirituality. Check out this unusual approach! |
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Holy Days |
11/11/00 |
Candlelighting - What are the different kinds of candlelighting in
Judaism. |
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Ritual |
10/18/00 |
How does a
mezuzzah help keep blood off of the doorposts of your home? |
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Sukkot |
10/11/00 |
How to use a lulav and etrog and what to do with the etrog when Sukkot is over. Also a five part Sukkot section exists with stories and rituals to add spirituality to your Sukkah experience. |
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Prayer |
10/11/00 |
A Jewish meditation for your morning practice. |
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Holy Days |
10/2/2000 |
"Teshuvah Walks" Every day between Rosh HaShannah and Yom Kippur Reb Goldie engages in a Jewish meditation walk to prepare for a session of teshuvah, relationship repair. This is a journal of such a walk. |
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Holy Days |
10/3/2000 |
"Yom Kippur at Home" Rural Jews, homebound Jews and bored Jews write to Reb Goldie asking how to observe Yom Kippur at home. This is her response. |
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Holy Days |
9/27/2000 |
"I forget, what is Rosh HaShannah really about?" |
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Stories |
9/10/2000 |
Cross Europe Spiritual Travelogue: Reb Goldie, Hubbatzin Barry and her younger son Mark Beitman depict in six internet postings Jewish life, spiritual growth and issues encountered during their summer teaching and travels in Ireland, France, Belgium, Germany and Holland. |
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Prayer |
9/1/2000 |
In response to a reader's request, this is a step by step spiritual guide to home morning spiritual practices and is also appropriate for daily (shacharit) and most of shabbat morning services. |
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Torah |
4/12/00 |
Miriam and Tza'ra-at - A Notion. Re-reading Tazria/Metzorah, a new vision of what had happened to Miriam emerges. See what YOU think! |
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Prayer |
1/31/00 |
A Caregiver's Kaddish When a patient dies, something holy and healing for the caregiving staff to considering doing. |
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Stories |
2/24/00 |
Sacred Story about a Torah Reb Goldie discovers a small community in the Ukraine and their connection to the practice of reading from the Torah. |
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Torah |
2/24/00 |
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Life Cycle |
11/29/99 |
Rituals for Divorce and new wording for a Jewish divorce document ("get") |
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Holy Days |
1/31/00 |
Passover Ideas: Rituals and Meditations for enhancing the spirituality of your Pesach. for enhancing the spirituality of your Pesach. |
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Prayer |
11/29/99 |
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Prayer |
12/7/99 |
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Life Cycle |
August 2, 1999 |
How About a Cyber Bar/Bat Mitzvah: Reb Goldie and her son created a web site for his bar mitzvah which is a model bar/bat mitzvah web site. We'd love your feedback on this site, its spiritual goals and structure... |
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Holy Days |
11/29/99 |
Hanukkah Ideas - lots and lots of pages including Eight Nights of Ideas for a Spiritual Hanukkah; Adult Dreidel Game, Texts about Light for Study |
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Stories |
12/7/99 |
Forks in the Road: Story of Reb Goldie's visit with a Bedouin Feminist and the ethical dilemnas which ensue |
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Stories |
Revised Aug 18, 2001 |
The Etrog Grove: Guess who was a teenager negotiating a trip to S'fat? |
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Mysticism |
11/29/99 |
The Road to Reb Nachman's Grave....Story of Reb Goldie's visit to Reb Nachman's grave in Uman, The Ukraine |
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Stories |
8/1/99 |
Spiritual Travelog: An accidental mistake in data entry results in Reb Goldie and her husband Barry's travel notes being sent to everyone in her email data base. When we apologize over a hundred people write back saying "don't stop!" This is the entire collection of 43 travel entries covering our summer '99 cross country trip and teaching tour of over twenty-three states including Alaska and parts of Canada. |
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Holy Days |
05/16/2007 |
Sephirotic Omer Counting: After exploring freedom on Passover we begin a 49 day process of preparing for Shavuot. Learn an ancient Jewish mystical technique for cultivating consciousness, the kind which might lead to valuable new awareness! |
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Life Cycle |
5/13/99 |
Alternative ritual for an unveiling A reader writes saying the family doesn't relate easily to Hebrew liturgy, what alternative is there for an unveiling grounded in Jewish tradition? |
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Prayer |
5/6/99 |
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Torah |
5/10/99 |
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Mitzvot |
05/16/07 |
Ideas for wording a gift note when you are making a gift to tzedakah in honor or memory of someone. In this case Reb Goldie and her husband Barry are giving to Kosovo refugee relief via the JDC to honor cousins who are getting married. |
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Meditation |
4/24/99
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Reb Goldie's essay on What Is Jewish Meditation? Includes hyperlinks to different types of Jewish meditation. |
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Prayer |
4/19/99 |
Praying for Healing: A Possible Approach. Learn about the traditional prayer for healing and try a guided healing meditation which draws upon the Kabbalists' metaphor of "The River of Light". Holistic and calming. |
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Life Cycle |
4/13/99 |
Ideas for creating a spiritual conversion ritual, written in response to a reader's request for how to go to mikveh with someone who is converting; includes a section of reflections on circumcision. |
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Life Cycle |
3/13/99 |
Help Me with Kaddish |
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Stories |
3/13/99 |
Encounters with a South Africa Tzadik |
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Torah |
3/15/99 |
How to Lead Group Aliyot |
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