The RCA Life - cycle Madrikh

"A life-cycle handbook for the rabbi." That is the entire brief, and this volume is built to it - a working reference for the occasions a rabbi is called on to officiate at and to guide families through, from birth through the end of life.

Written by Rabbi Reuven P. Bulka and published by The RCA Press, it runs 200 pages in hardcover at 5.00 x 7.00 inches. The trim is the point: a madrikh is carried, not shelved. Five by seven inches fits a jacket pocket or a briefcase so the handbook is with you at a hall, a hospital, a chapel or a beis olam, which is where the questions actually arrive and where there is no time to look something up at leisure.

The hardcover binding suits a book that gets opened under pressure and passed between hands. A reference used at the moment it is needed takes more abuse than a book read in a study.

It is aimed at rabbanim in the field, chaplains and rabbinical students building a professional shelf, and it makes a practical gift for a young rabbi taking a first pulpit - the kind of present that gets used in the first month rather than admired.

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