Stan chats with Rabbi Matt Goldberg about spirituality.Rabbi Goldberg graduated from Hebrew College and ordained in 2023. Originally from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Matt received a B.A. in English with a Minor in American History from Dalhousie University. After high school he lived in Israel on the USCJ’s Nativ gap year program, where he first met his wife Elana.During rabbinical school he held internships at synagogues in Boston and Toronto, and was part of the 12th cohort of the iCenter’s Masters Concentration in Israel Education. Upon his graduation, Matt was awarded Hebrew College’s Cantor Rick Boyar Prize for Excellence in Hazzanut. His musical career began much earlier: from childhood piano lessons, to playing trumpet in his university stage band, he now writes original nigunim (wordless melodies) that are used in communities around the country. While in school, Matt completed a unit of CPE (Clinical Pastoral Education) at Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, IL, where he worked as a chaplain, visiting with patients and their families.Matt is passionate about making Jewish ritual accessible, and Jewish community welcoming. He has brought that passion to synagogues across North America as a bnei mitzvah tutor, youth group advisor, teacher, and prayer leader. Having spent a year commuting to and from Boston to finish school, Matt is thrilled to be in Minnesota full-time, and is excited to bring his leadership, teaching, and enthusiasm to Beth El as the Assistant Rabbi.Listen along as Rabbi Goldberg shares his experiences and thoughts on spirituality.Join the conversation at healthchatterpodcast.comBrought to you in support of Hue-MAN, who is Creating Healthy Communities through Innovative Partnerships.More about their work can be found at http://huemanpartnership.org/
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Hello, everybody. Welcome to Health Chatter. Today's great episode is on spirituality, which is a very, very interesting subject for sure. We've got a great guest with us, Rabbi Matt Goldberg, and I'll get to him in a second. We've got great background researchers that really make all our shows just super, super successful. Maddy Levine-Wolfe,
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So with that, we're going to get into a subject that actually I've been really thinking a lot about, frankly, for quite a while now as it relates to health. As everybody might know, we've done a variety of different topics in health, social-related health topics, chronic disease, infectious disease. et cetera. And, you know, I've been struck by the idea of spirituality.
And so we've invited my great rabbi from Bethel Synagogue in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, Rabbi Matt Goldberg, graduated from Hebrew College and was ordained as a rabbi and a cantor, both. So he can speak and sing. Imagine that. And he came to Beth-El just recently this summer. So it's great to have you.
He was originally from Vancouver, British Columbia, received his BA in English and a minor American history. He's done internships in Boston and Toronto and has done work in chaplaincy, which I think is an important topic as it relates to spirituality. And just really a wonderful man. And I really appreciate having you on our show. So thanks for being with us, Matt. Thank you.
So let's get this thing going here. So, you know, there's kind of this, I don't know if it's angst, but there's kind of a connection or what have you between spirituality on one hand and religious spirituality. on the other. Now, I could speak for myself. I'm a religious Jew. I mean, I practice Judaism. And on the other hand, I'm spiritual.
So it's kind of like I have these two facets as a human being. And so I'm wondering if you might be able to respond to that.
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