Mincha Maariv Pocket Booklet in Black with Silver Pattern #238

Black with a silver intersecting pattern across the cover — a fine crosshatch of lines that catches light without being loud, which is what keeps design #238 from looking like a plain paperback. Sixty-two pages, 3 by 4.5 inches, paperback. The black is the most conservative of the four colors this booklet comes in and the one that suits a men's simcha table without argument.

Nusach is the choice: Ashkenaz, Sefard or Eduth Mizrach. Order the one your crowd davens, or split the order across all three if the mechutanim daven differently from you — at this size and price that is a realistic thing to do rather than a compromise.

The pocket size is not a gimmick. Three by four and a half inches goes into a suit jacket and stays there, which is why these end up in the pockets of men who daven mincha wherever the afternoon finds them. As a giveaway at a bar mitzvah, a chasunah or a sheva brachos, it is the rare souvenir that gets used all year instead of shelved.

• Malchut design #238
• Material: Silver
• Nisuch: Ashkenaz, Eduth Mizrach, Sefard

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