Goldie is just three feet tall and has FD, a rare disorder.
Standing just three feet tall, Goldie Shuman is a giant of spirit, a sweet inspiration to us all on how to live with positivity and faith. Despite the ongoing challenges of living with a host of medical challenges, she lives every day to the max, bringing joy and faith to everyone around her. Her bat mitzvah speech inspired thousands and continues to reach more people every day.
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You are indeed a golden and very wonderful girl. We are very touched by the beautiful words of inspiration that you shared on your video. May you continue to go michayil el chayil in all your endeavors, b’ruchnius ub’gashmius, in good health and with abundant simcha!!! May you continue to grow in your Yiddishkeit and always be a source of Chassidishe naches to your dear parents and family, and Klal Yisroel. With best wishes of hatzlacha and brachos for revealed good always, Aliza
Mazal Tov Goldie
May you have many more happy, healthy years!
Dear Goldie,
Thank you for your speech. It really reminds me to be happy no matter what my circumstances are. It has helped me a lot.
Wishing you a BIG Mazal Tov on your special day. May you be able to celebrate many more Simchos!
S
Mazel tov goldie!! May you have long healthy happy years filled with joy an happiness!!! You did a fantastic job on your speech!! May you continue to give your parents and everyone around lots of nachas!! Ps.I love dandelions too 🙂
Mazal tov Goldie! Although I have never met you, watching your speech has inspired me to be more grateful to Hashem for everything He does for us. You are a true inspiration!
Mazal tov Goldie! Although I have never met you, I was so inspired by your speech to be more grateful and thankful to Hashem for everything He does for us. You are a true inspiration!
May you go from strength to strength in good health and continue to be a source of nachas to your family And all of us!
So inspiring
Beautiful bat mitzvah girl
Such an inspiring speach
Thank you for inspiring us across the world! Keep on doing such an awesome job at that! Keep fighting that fight girl!!!! Sending love and support!!
Shkyoach and mazel tov!
Mazal tov Goldie! You are a beautiful girl and an example of strength and perseverance! May HaShem bless you with continued strength to overcome all challenges until they are no longer challenges! Wishing you a huge happy birthday on this special milestone! – – An inspired fan in Miami, FL
Beautiful
MAZAL TOV GOLDIE AND FAMILY! TO MUCH HAPPINESS TILL 180 AND BEYOND!!!
Mazel tov Goldie,you are incredible! May you always continue to give lots of Yiddishe and Chashidishe nachas to the Rebbe,your family and Klal Yisroel and may we taka have the biggestsimcha of all NOW!
Dear Goldie
You are truly an inspiration! Wishing you good health and many more happy years together with your family. Mazel tov To you dear parents and siblings. They were chosen to have the zchus of being part of your life. They are obviously very special people. May we celebrate the biggest simcha of all , the coming of Moshiach NOW!!!
I am a 20 year old bochur, but I cant help but cry. You are amazing
Mazal Tov Goldie!
Mazel Tov Goldie! May you only have continued health, blessing and a long happy life!
You are a beautiful girl.
I lovoooved your speech.
Goldie,
You have challenges and we all think we have challenges, your words gave me strength to be stronger to to reach others and bring Moshiach now.
Mazal Tov to you Goldie!
May the Almighty give you an abundance of reasons to keep that beautiful smile on your face!!
Best wishes for improved health and good spirit for many years to come!
Dear Goldie,
You are remarkable and gave a beautiful speech.
Mazel Tov
Love
Randye and Mark Danziger
“Hashem put me here for a purpose, for a reason that only i can accomplish ” love that meaningful sentence. May you be blessed on this days and always with joy, happiness and doing the mission that only YOU can do, no one else can do it – only you to fulfill your mission as a soldier in tzivos hashem! Bracha vhatzlacha and a big mazel tov!
Mazal Tov!
May HASHEM bless you with happiness, success, perfect health, shalom, arichus yamim
vi shanim, REFUAH SHELAMAH and many BERACHOT today and every single day AMEN
Mazal Tov Goldie
Mazal Tov Goldie!!! May your bas Mitzvah year be the best one yet and may your parents have nachas from you in a revealed and open way!!
Hatzlacha in all you do!!
You should continue being this beautiful and inspiring girl, with health and giving Naches to your parents and everyone around you!!!
Mazal tov on your Bas Mitzvah! 🎉
BH
May Hashem shower you with revealed Brachos Begashmius Uveruchnius! with great good health, only joy in your life, and to continue inspiring everyone around you like you inspire me! Thank you for being you!
You’re friend Benji Licht from Hallandale Beach, Florida.
MAZEL TOV MAZEL TOV onthis Beautiful occasion.You have Rekindled my flickering flame of hope you have more strength and courage than a lot of people who I surround myself with every day may Hashem continue to give you health strength peace and happiness and to be זוכה to dance with the coming of Moshiac.🌞
Mazel Tov Goldie!
Thank you for sharing your beautiful speech with us. You are so special and your words are so inspiring! You are a fighter. May you continue to give your parents Nachas ❤️
Thank you for a beautiful speech on the day of your Bas Mitzvah. Your speech is inspiring and courageous to all of us! May hashem always be with you!!!
Goldie, wishing you Mazel Tov on this special milestone. Your speech is a real inspiration for me. Your smile is radiant!! May you celebrate many Simchas with the coming of Moshiach now!!
You are a true inspiration!!
One of the “tallest” people I ever met!!
Wishing you brochos ad bli dai!!
Dear Goldie,
You are such an inspiration!! You are such a strong girl and have so much to give to the world!! Thank you for sharing your Bas Mitzva speech with all of us!
Dearest Goldie,
You are the most precious and beautiful girl I have ever seen! Mazal tov on this special milestone in your life! Hearing your voice in the video touches my heart. I hope to meet you in person one day and may we all celebrate all of our smachot together with the coming of moshiach right now!
Mazal tov Goldie! May you have all the brachos and be healthy and happy. You are so cute.
Mazel tov on reaching such a special milestone! You speak words of treasures to us all! Thank you sharing! May every breath and step in your future, be built on healing, strength, love and tremendous accomplishments and achievements!
Rimler Family
Mazel tov Goldie!! You touched my very core and inspired me to grateful even during hard times. You’re so special.
Goldie, you are an inspiration to all. May Hashem send down an overflow of Brachos to you and your family and we should only share in such beautiful simchas!
Mazal tov Goldie!
May hashem bench you bgashmius and ruchnius with much health and happiness and only revealed good. You are a try inspiration
Mazal tov on your bas mitzvah
You are an inspiration. Your words touched me deeply. Especially about appreciating all the beautiful things Hashem created and realizing the importance of our individual special purpose in this world. Continue to inspire us all. Many brochos to you for many happy healthy years with your family.
Goldie, thank you for sharing your Bat Mitzvah speech, and thereby letting me somehow participate in this great milestone in your life. Thank you also for reminding me that HaShem has a purpose for me and that everything in my life comes from him. May you continue to be a blessing to your family and your community.
Reus Chaya
Dear Goldie,
You are such a special girl and inspire me so much!! I will now be more appreciative for every small thing in my life because really everything is a gift from Hashem! Keep on inspiring others! Wishing you all the Brachos in a revealed way always! Mazal tov!💜
Beautiful and inspiering speech
Many more years of happiness!
You will forever be my favorite Goldie!! In 24 years of teaching
I have never had a student make a Brocha Shehakol word for word
With such kavanah from your heart and soul.
Morah Brocha Leah G
So inspirational! I’m eleven years old and it was so special hearing someone around my age speak so amazingly and keep pushing forward עד מאה ועשרים שנה and with moshiach tzidkeinu amen!
I am in awe of you and your family. You are a very brave and inspiring young lady. I wish you the very best Bas Mitzvah any girl could have. You certainly deserve it. May Hashem grant you the ability to celebrate happy occasions for many more years to come. Chanie H.
What an inspiring and beautiful speech! May you have only good health and walk together to the coming of Moshiach now!
Your are a true inspiration.
Wishing you all the best in good health and happiness from Montreal.
I too cried, Goldie, as I watched and listened to your beautiful bas mitzvah speech. Your message was very powerful and I will always remember it, especially when I come across dandelions. Mazel tov for reaching this very special milestone birthday. May Hashem bless you to continue celebrating many more simchas, in good health iy’h and happiness, together with your family and friends. Moshiach Now. Mrs. Tzirl Goldman
Wow Goldie!
What a BEAUTIFUL speech!
Here, like everyday in school, you inspire us and bring us to work and enjoy what is really important in Hashem’s world!
Love you!
Morah Cohen
Hi Goldie,
Mazel Tov! Wow you did an amazing job! Hashem should give you the strength to be able to travel the world and speak to many communities, you will inspire them! We look forward to welcoming you in Los Angeles!
Many more happy & healthy years!
Love, your friends in Los Angeles,
Feigelstock Family
You are a real inspiration, and a super special woman!
Wishing you many more healthy years!
Mazal Tov Goldie! Your speech is so inspiring! We loved it!
Hi Goldie!
Mazel Tov on your Bas Mitzvah! Yasher Koach on your amazing and inspiring speech! Thank you to you and your parents for sharing your special speech so others can learn from your positivity, strength, courage and bitachon in Hashem.
May Hashem contiinue to give you koach to grow and feel good!
Thanks to Rus Devorah Wallen for forwarding me your speech.
Bluma Goodman
Brooklyn, NY
Mazal tov! May you continue to inspire all around you to appreciate life and know that we each have a purpose for being here and for being who we are!
I spent a few years with your father in yeshiva and always admired his sincerity. You’re lucky to have him as a father! I wish him and your mother continued nachas from you and your siblings till the coming of Moshiach!
N.B.
An unbelievably inspiring speech Goldie!!! THANK YOU!!!
Hi Goldie,
A truly inspiring speech!
We wish you a very big Mazal tov on the occasion of your bas mitzvah!
May we only share in Simchas and the ultimate simcha of Moshiach!!
Boruch & Naomi Greenberg
Wishing you all the blessings for happiness and revealed goodness every day in every way. What a special neshomo you are! May you continue to smile and give inspiration to so many in your own unique way!!
Hi Goldie,
I had such a wonderful time at your Bas Mitzvah. I hope you are enjoying the present I made for you. Hoping every day is a great, happy day for you. I can hardly wait to see you when I get to Buffalo.
Take care and see you soon, Sarah Gilbert
Mazal tov Goldie
Such a beautiful video
You are such an inspiration
May we merit the coming of moshiach now !!!
Chanie
Mazel tov, Goldie! I am truly inspired watching your speech and wish you much gezunt, and only revealed good!
Dear Goldie,
There many things that only you can accomplish and your powerful speech is one of it.
I would like to send you a painting of dandelion,please text me privately your address.
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thank you for your beautiful message
Mazel tov from Down under – Australia
You are a Golden Goldie – very special!
What an inspiring Bat Mitzva speech read so beautifully! May HaShem shower upon you all his Brachos and may we go from this Simcha to the ultimate Simcha of the coming of Moshiach Tzidkeinu B’karov Mamash Now!!!
YOU ARE A LIGHT TO US ALL
Dear Goldie,
Hashem should bless you with many more happy years and give you the courage to keep inspiring others and to continue being the amazing person that you are!!
Your so special. Happy birthday
Goldi you will always be thought about… and will always be in our prayers… hashem will give you the kochos that you need every day amen!!!
Kol hakovod Goldie for being a beacon of light and inspiration to the entire world!
And to your parents as well!
Wow! Goldie is so special! I am so moved by her Bas Mitzvah speech. I am in awe of such an amazing person! Very inspiring and I can learn a lot on how to live in a positive manner when I think about Goldie. Only Brachos in your life, Goldie! Mazel Tov!!!
Goldie, We here in California join with hundreds of your well wishers and were inspired by your sincere expression of faith in Hashem.
May Hashem miraculously grant you good health and may continue to grow into a beautiful woman giving inspiration to all of us.
Rabbi Moshe Yosef and Rochel Engel
Thank you goldie for kicking me in the butt!
my life willl never be the same again after watching your speech. I know i’ve needs to bring Hashem back in my life for a long time now , thank you for being the one to give me the strength to do so.
I don’t know you but i love you xx
Mazal tov Goldie on your special day!
Thank you very much for sharing it with Us!
You are a special girl with a special family!
I would love to hear more of your inspiring teachings!
Shani
Hi Goldie
Mazel tov from Down under, Australia. I have a daughter with a disability and sometimes it’s really hard. Watching you and seeing your positive attitude shine as you speak has given me inspiration to be grateful for any accomplishments.
Mazal Tov, Goldie and family!!
You are a beautiful girl and an amazing inspiration! You are a blessing to the world.
Your Emunah and praise to Hashem surely brings Moshiach closer for all of us.
Thank you for sharing your bas mitzva with us and your beautiful speach!
Only brochos and complete joy for you and your family from now on!
Looking forward to seeing the video of your Chasuna hat the bais hamikdosh with Moshiach!!
Mazel tov Goldie to your and your family. With words, Hashem created the world, His beautiful garden, and with your powerful message of courage and purpose, you have Brought life and light to it’s magnificent flowers. 😃
Mazel tov Goldie and thank you for sharing such beautiful and meaningful words with us. May Hashem alleviate your challenges and bless you with good health and happiness.
IY”H only good news!
Mazel tov to Goldie and her wonderful parents. Wishing you many years of good health and happiness. your talk brought tears to my eyes and touched me deeply.
Moshiach now
Risha Majesky
Crown heights
Mazel Tov, Goldie!
Dear Goldie,
Indeed you are a very special young lady. Your beauty and warmth is an inspiration to all, even those who have never had the fortune of meeting you. You inspire us even from a distance. Mazel Tov on this milestone!! May you continue to be blessed with health and all the Brochos in the world!
Have nachas from this gorgeous, special “flower”!
May Hashem heal Goldie and keep her strong!
Thank you for sharing this milestone.
Dear Goldie.
Sending our best mazel tov wishes from London England! You are an inspiration! I really gained alot from your heartfelt speech, thank you for sharing it with us! May Hashem continue to give you strength and perseverance and may you have much much hatzlocha ! Continue being the wonderful person you are!
Mazel tov!
Your speech touched me and my kids. Wishing you a sweet year and always. Your message of gratitude really impacted us.
Thank you for sharing your simcha, love 💕 and joy with all of us! May Hashem bless you and may you go from strength to strength!
Hi Goldie
We learn together in Ohr Temimim. Im so happy to see you.
Mazal Tov . Until 120
Hugs and kisses
Orly Maldonado from Israel.💓💕
Chana Delfiner
Dearest Shuman family,
We wish you you a very big and sincere mazal tov for this incredible milestone. May Hashem give you all only the best of health, continuous simchas, and true nachas from Goldie and all of your beautiful children.
Chaim & Ruthie Katz and family
Dear Goldie.
You have inspired me across the miles. Your smile, your wisdom and your beautiful message have touched me deeply.
May Hashem continue to bentch you with only good things, and may the brachos pop up everywhere like dandelions in an open field.
Mazel Tov.
Goldie Avtzon – Hong Kong
You are a beautiful person. I was so touched by your words. Thank you for sharing it so we can learn from all that you have said and be inspired to thank Hashem for everything. May we merit the coming of Moshiach NOW and your FD will disappear and you will feel good every day!
Dearest Goldie, ahetichye
A huge Mazal Tov on your milestone birthday!
You are a true inspiration!
Your speech and video has left me in such awe of you and your parents and family!
Thank you for inspiring us all!
Wishing you all the best and utmost koach in fulfilling your life’s mission! And may we be zioche to the coming of Moshiach Now!
SC Mondshine
Moscow, Russia
Mazal tov Goldie! I have been honored to have the privilege of being in school with you even for a couple of years. You inspire all of us in the Buffalo community and beyond.
Goldie your speech was amazing and so meaningful! Thank you for sharing and continue to give strength and nachas to your family and klal yisroel
Wishing this beautiful young bas mitzvah and her amazing family many long years of complete health and happiness. You, Goldie, are among those leading us to the Geulah Shleimah!!! Mazal Tov !!
I wish you masel tov and your parents can be very very proud of you
You are a big example for oll uf us you dhould bd gesint in stark an
And we should meet bekurev mosiach
That was a very beautiful and inspiring speech
We are Honored that we get to daven in shul together with u when we visit buffolo
You are a true inspiration!
Devorah rochel
Chaya and Hillel Shapiro
You gave me so much koach from your speech. You are so special and lovable. Thank you for sharing your beautiful speech. It uplifted me.
Mazal tov Mazal tov!
God bless you precious girl.
Mazel tov!
Continue to light up and inspire the world in your unique and special way
A real shlucha of the Rebbe inspiring throughout the world! Reminding me and us how important it is to see the bright side of things, to recognize all our great dandelions we have in our life!
May you share the ultimate simcha of moshiah very soon with all of us! With complete and speedy recovery! Giving your parents and family great nachas!
All the way from France! Big yesher koach and mazal tov
Mazel Tov Goldie on your Bas Mitzvah! You are ka’h awesome! Thank you and your great family for sharing your beautiful day–and outlook on life–with all of us. So inspiring! I passed your talk along to a friend here whose daughter has FD. I’m sure they’ll be inspired too BEZH.
May Hashem bentch you with many miracles in your life, and all with simcha and with greeting Moshiach NOW!
what a beautiful girl and such a beautiful message for all of us! Mazeltov.
may you inspire us for many more years to come in good health.
Mazel tob
I love your speech.May u be always happy and healthy
And share many simchas with your family and all klal Isroel!!!!
Mazel Tov on your Bas Mitzvah! May Hashem grant you strength to rise above any challenges you face and may you overcome them with flying colours! may you continue to inspiring all of us! Wishing you all the brochos and revealed good!
Mazel Tov on your special birthday!!
Mazal tov!
Much nachas and Simcha. From Dovid krautwirth
Mazel tov Goldie!!!
May you continue to be a source of nachas and inspiration for your family and all of Klal Yisrael until 120!
Mazal Tov Mazal Tov! What an absolutely incredible speech! May Hashem always keep that beautiful smile on your face! From now on everytime I see a dandilion I will think of you and your powerful message!
Beautiful speech, Goldie!
Hi Goldie, we are friends of you grandparents Shuman and have been following your life through them. Some sad times and some very happy times. Your Bat Mitzvah is certainly a very happy time for you and your extended family and we are proud to share it with you through the wonderful video. We loved your speech and especially loved your beautiful smile at the end of the video. We wish you a life filled with many, many more happy times with your loving family.
Bunny & Ron
Goldie, this video was the highlight of my week. You are a beautiful and obviously special young woman and I look forward to seeing the wonderful things you will do as you grow older. What an inspiring speech. I loved every minute. May you continue to inspire klal Yisroel with your spirit in health and happiness!!
As a mother of 2 bas mitzvah girls, I know that everyone can feel burdenend by life’s challenges at times. You really remind me and my family to look at all the brachos in our lives, and to see our purpose in this world, as a commitment to serve Hashem with all our strengths, no matter what is going on.
May you go from strength to strength ad vias goel tzedek – may it be today!
Racheli Metal
Las Vegas, NV
Goldie, you are a remarkable girl and a very brave one.
Wishing you much happiness together with you loving family.
Aunt Yvonne from Amsterdam
So emotional and inspirational!
We are humbled by, and very appreciative of, the outpouring of comments, good wishes and Brachos! We read every comment with tears in our eyes and took to heart every single one! We wish everyone the same good wishes, and pray that Hashem give all of us the strength to fulfill the purpose for which Hashem sent each of us into this world. Through our acts of kindness towards each other, may we merit very soon the fulfillment of Hashem’s promise to take each of us by the hand and lead us across the threshold together to the final and… Read more »
…and your parents certainly demonstrated their ruach hakodesh when they named you Goldie—because the “gold” you are cannot be bought anywhere and is priceless beyond any amount!
Thank you for the inspiration—-and keep sharing your PURE GOLD with the rest of us —-with that gorgeous smile!!
With love from a Bubby who is still smiling and crying from your beautiful speech and your amazing parents and siblings!!
Mazel tov to you Goldie.
Though officially you are only twelve ,your understanding of what is truly important in life,surpasses the understanding of people who are 5 times your age.
Your smile is more effective than 100 shiurim about simcha and emunah .
May Hasem bentch you to continue to be a source of light and inspiration for many many years to come ,together with your amazing family.
May we all merit to greet Moshiach,speedily ..no ,not just speedily -NOW.
Goldie, I am so glad to have this opportunity to see your speech, and I have watched it twice, so far. Even though you were my math student 2 years ago, you are also teaching me and others some very important life lessons. I am going to think of you every spring, when the dandelions appear! You and your parents are kind, understanding, and super-amazing. A huge Mazel Tov and best wishes to you and your family!
From Mrs. Efron.
Goldie
Wishing you a mazel tov and to tell you that while I just turned 70 years old you have taught me more about what courage and life is all about than anyone else – may Hashem grant you abundant brachot and hatzlacha in the year’s ahead as you are a beacon of light to all and may you continue to radiate goodness and have only besorot tovot in the years ahead
Sarah from Israel
B’SD
I SAW YOUR BAS MITZVAH MESSAGE ON COLLIVE…AND BEAUSE OF YOUR SMILE, SPEECH AND LOVE OF DANDELIONS…IAM INSPIRED TO DO MORE! THANK YOU! I’M IN CROWN HEIGHTS..PASSING THE REBBE’S HOUSE EVERYDAY…NOW BECAUSE WE ARE ” NAMESAKE RELATIVES”…YOU ARE WITH ME …WAITING FOR THE REBBE TO APPEAR. IN THE MEANTIME, LETS DO OUR PART TO BRING MOSHIACH….N O W!
A BIG mazal tov to you Goldie and all your family. HaShem should bless you to keep seeing the beauty and miracles in all the small things in life. May we merit to see your video under your chupah.
Wishing you all the blessings for a happy and purposeful life
Thanks for sharing with us
Mazal Tov Goldie:
Many, many Happy returns & always be in good health. You truly are a shining example to others. May you always be b’simcha!
Dear Goldie,
Mazel Tov on becoming a Bas Mitzvah!! You and your family looks so beautiful and happy for you on this amazing milestone you have reached. You are truly an inspiration to everyone who can learn from you and your family how with love and faith in Hashem we can overcome all challenges. We are all looking froward to celebrating many more Simchas with you.
May Hashem bless you and your family with all of your hearts desires.
Mazel Tov,
MES,
P.B.FL
Dear Goldie,
I am almost 70 years old! And I am trying to do in my life what you already do so well— to see the positives and to thank Hashem every day for the many good things He has given me, despite the challenges.
You are an inspiration to people of all ages, and I wish you constant bracha v’hatzlocho!
Mazal tov!
Goldie,
We are so proud of you for reaching this wonderful milestone in your life and celebrate you for this accomplishment. You are a beautiful young lady and serve as an inspiration for so many.
We congratulate you and wish you lots of love.
Your cousins,
Wendy and Ron