Background
Goldberg, Hillel was born on January 10, 1946 in Denver, Colorado, United States. Son of Max and Miriam (Harris) Goldberg.
("When you ask the Nawardoker, 'How do you do?' the meanin...)
"When you ask the Nawardoker, 'How do you do?' the meaning is 'How is Jewishness with you? Have you advanced in spirituality?' ... He who has studied musar will never enjoy his life further, Ḥayyim, you will remain a cripple your whole life. You write heresy... but is there any one of you really so strong that he does not desire public approval for himself? Which one of you is prepared to publish his book anonymously? ... Our spiritual calm you have exchanged for passions which you will never attain, for doubts which, even after much self-torture, you will not be able to explain away. Your writing will not improve a single person, and it will make you worse" (from his "My Quarrel with Hersh Rasseyner," in: I. Howe and E. Greenberg (eds.), Treasury of Yiddish Stories (1954), 579-606). Even after many years the musarnik remembered this naked prolonged cry, "O voices of ecstasy, O hoary voices, follow you - I follow the echo of my Elul nights seven years ago" (idem, Mussernikes (1969), 9). The Musar movement is thus a civic trend which, deflected from its original aim, gradually developed an entire educational system, based on, and aiming toward, integration and subjection of the youthful emotions to a deeply instilled emotional defense system of a rigoristic Jewish life according to halakhah. It promoted unity through pride in this fraternity of feelings and intentions and thus served as a social bond among those who emerged from the musar hothouse in the yeshivot. The Slobodka and Nawardok approaches differed in their degree of extremism and the emphasis on spiritual exercise, but were based on the same principle. By 1970 the main yeshivot of the Lithuanian type were musar oriented, the majority of Slobodka style, and a small minority Nawardok style. Despite the system, or to some extent because of it, many left the musar yeshivot for more secular trends of education.
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Goldberg, Hillel was born on January 10, 1946 in Denver, Colorado, United States. Son of Max and Miriam (Harris) Goldberg.
Bachelor, Yeshiva University, 1969. Master of Arts, Brandeis University, 1972. Doctor of Philosophy, Brandeis University, 1978.
Lecturer Machzeke Torah Institute, Brookline, Massachusetts, 1971-1971, 75, Jerusalem College for Women, 1973-1975, 77, The Hebrew University, 1978-1985, Jerusalem Torah College, 1979-1982. Halakhic adviser Torah MaMidbar and Pardes Israel, Santa Fe, 1986-1996. Executive editor Intermountain Jewish News, Denver, since 1966.
Board directors Rofeh International, Boston., Hillel Academy, Beth Jacob High School of Denver.
(Included in this volume are biographies of six of the mos...)
("When you ask the Nawardoker, 'How do you do?' the meanin...)
(From the middos of the Partiarchs and Matriarchs to the m...)
(Book by Rabbi Hillel Goldberg)
(Book by Goldberg, Hillel)
Volunteer Head Start, Oakland, California, 1964-1965, Harlem, New York, 1965-1966. Founder Torah Community Project, Denver, since 1986. Legislation committee member Colorado Press Association, since 1990.
Science advisory committee member National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality, since 1997. Board directors Open Door Youth Gang Alternatives, since 1995. Board directors East Denver Orthodox Synagogue, 1994-1996, vice president, since 1996.
Member American History Association, American Jewish Press Association (Rockower awards 1983, 85, 89, 91-94, 96-99, recording secretary 1989-1991), Rabbinical Council American, National Association Rudimental Drummers, Association for Jewish Studies.
Married Elaine Silberstein, May 19, 1969. Children: Tehilla, Temima, Mattis, Shayna, Tiferet, Chaim.
