Rabbi Moshe Pesach Goldman - 8th grade rebbi at ULY Lub Yeshiva, Tzach, Brownsville - RC Dalfin

This is an a tribute to Rav Mosha Pesak Goldman. He was my rebi in 1974 I believe in Lavashi Shiva at Ocean Parkway up my eighth grade rebby and I have very warm memories just to share a few few things. Rabbi Goldman was a very very fine fair softspoken individual. I remember he taught us for example he taught us that really on pretzels we should wash according to the alterb that stands out in my mind now and I know that someim hold otherwise and I'm not going into the issues but just the fact that here is a you know uh here's a young 13year-old boy 12 13 year old boy in his class. And I remember now so many years later, Rabbi Goldman at that time during that year suffered a great loss. Nebuchadnezzar, I believe that was his name, was murdered in Crown Heights. It was a tragedy for the entire community. I remember walking on the block I think on Montgomery Street cuz he lives on lived on Montgomery Street walking behind the casket. I know the Rebbit came out also uh in front of 770 and I I remember that after you know after this tragedy yeshiva there were times when he said kadesh and he davened for the um he I don't know if he ded for the um but um he broke down still I still remember like now and I I just it was so painful you know to see our rebi our teacher have this great pain and I it's like I it's like it happened yesterday. So a person lives a long life. Goldman was on the I think the treasurer or secretary of Buddhisad from the very beginning. He worked with Rabdovasin and Rabbdin was a Russian. Abold Golden was an American. And my my understanding is that some of the early outreach things and the purimus were his. He initiated them. you know, he suggested them in the 1950s before, you know, was was a thing and became popular. It wasn't that way. and he had a vision together with some some some others, but he took a lead role in in in this. And we look back now 70 years and we need to thank him for it because who doesn't go today and give out manus and light manas and then do mitzvah kaneka and and matzah and luveness but in those days it wasn't it wasn't fashionable on the contrary there was a lot of criticism by other by others They didn't relate to this, you know, running around with with the Yiddish kite, with the mitzvah in public, you know, you're a Jew in sh you're a Jew at home, but in the street, you know, you're like everyone else. The Reba called for something else. The Reba called for an offensive war. A defense of war is not enough because we're living in a time of great assimilation. Rabbi Goldman took a a great a great part of this approach and in this offensive war. So he was a kind of an unassuming quiet man but he was fire in in leading this again I'm not saying he was the only one but definitely amongst the leaders in observing him as a as a rebi I saw his from kite his religiosity his kite his truthfulness and his kkite in various ways it's hard to articulate you know details but I recall how you know here here I am a a 12 13 became 13-year-old boy became bar mitzvah in his class many of us became bar mitzvah in Rabbi Gold's class you know you're beginning you're told you know you're putting on till and you're you're maturing and then that's why you're starting now you're obligated to do mitzvah and it's a new beginning and it was during his his class the year that we were in his class. So the messages besides the learning he taught us whether it was whatever we were learning the the overall messages were very palpable and very uh longlasting that we picked up during that time. So, Hashem took his nishama back 96 years. And by the way, he grew up in in Brownsville. He grew up in a kabad shul, a nusakar shul on Watkins Avenue. I actually went went out there several years ago, but it's no longer standing. It's been replaced by a pro uh like a prominade and and and buildings um city buildings. It's pretty rough out there. But I went during the day and made it back for Hashem. But there was a anab I think it was called the Rav was Rabitz, I believe. He wasn't a lab. He was aim. And he was a good friend of the the Reb, the Rashag. And Rab Goldman grew up in that sh. I spoke to him once or twice about it. Um there's a picture of that shoe from 19 uh 1940 you know surveillance um tax records they um they took pictures. So he grew up in that sh in that sh in 1929 the set of mimer I think Roshashana and Rabbi Jacobson Jacobson writes in his book in his memoirs he writes that there were 2,000 people that that's you know because there was he had a shul nearby and he knew what's going on and he was involved in all that there were 2,000 people listening to the mimemer in that sh and he said people he couldn't get in yet was standing outside sometime during Rajashana. So he grew up in that environment. He also was when he was in 770 the 1940s he together with his brother-in-law Rabbi Rosenfeld Rosenfeld show and uh the Pner boys they were sent label posner they were sent to Chicago I believe uh they started Shiva there it lasted a year a year or two or so and he was one of the what they would call today Beriml And um so he was uh you know very important in the sense of helping to establish alabi yeshiva at the time you know then it closed and it reopened today with with all kinds of institutions and yeshivas and girls schools and all of that but in those days you know Chicago wasn't uh kabad haven even though there were al and later um Rabbi Rabershelman wasn't there in 1946 when he when Rabbi Golden was sent Rab was but there was some other Rabbit Rabon but pretty much it was you know governed by uh government I mean it was the Bish um forget now liter institution was the main stay in that city it was more of a literature you know, city at the time. Anyway, Rabbi Goldman, of course, his father-in-law was Rabbel Yo Simpson, the mosque, the secretary of the secretary, the Rabbi Rabbi Simpson, our here who hadith at in he was still alive in 1974. So, he was Rabbi Goldman's father-in-law as well as Rabbi Roosevelt's father-in-law. Anyway, lots of memories and I wish the family to bereiement and console and my good friend his youngest son Goldman today who is I think is some pal in um Ario be a di Janeiro in Brazil. May may you and your entire family only have simas and no more and continue all the bala and outreach and teaching and ultimately all they should bring mashia at Goldman and everyone else will be resurrected and we'll see our with our eyes and we'll to everyone everyone. Thank you.