📖 המדריך | Ha-Madrikh: The Rabbi's Guide by R' Hyman E. Goldin (1939, rev. 1956)

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Date: 2017-02-05

Last Updated: 2023-04-06

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Excerpt: This manual has been devised for the express purpose of giving the Rabbi, or anyone officiating at a Jewish ceremonial or ritual, a concise and practical aid that will facilitate the task of officiating , and will obviate the necessity of resorting to the voluminous literature pertaining thereto. . . .

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Our research of the copyright renewals database held at Stanford Universtiy indicates that this work is in the Public Domain due to a lapse of copyright due to the lack of a copyright renewal. Ha-Madrikh, having been published in the United States between 1923 and 1963, was required to have its copyright renewed within 28 years of its publication by the copyright holder indicated in the copyright notice: the Hebrew Publishing Company. This is a common condition for many works published during this period. We have digitally scanned this work so as to make it more widely accessible and to make it available for digital transcription.

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Introduction

This manual has been devised for the express purpose of giving the Rabbi, or anyone officiating at a Jewish ceremonial or ritual, a concise and practical aid that will facilitate the task of officiating , and will obviate the necessity of resorting to the voluminous literature pertaining thereto.

The prayers and texts used for recitations on various occasions are given in their entirety so that there is no need during a ritual to scan the book in order to complete a particular service: the instructions are given in chronological sequence, and the prayers and texts for recitation follow the instructions. The Midrashic and Talmudic excerpts given at the end of the volume bear upon the subjects covered in the book and are intended to serve as source material, for sermons and speeches for special occasions.

The references indicating the sources will be of interest to those wishing further elucidation or information.

The need for a practical manual of this sort has been long felt, and we are confident that this volume will accomplish the purpose for which it is intended.

Hyman E. Goldin
New York, April 1939

Contributor: Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription)

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  Name: Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription)
  Bio: Aharon Varady (M.A.J.Ed./JTSA Davidson) is a volunteer transcriber for the Open Siddur Project. If you find any mistakes in his transcriptions, please let him know. Shgiyot mi yavin; Ministarot naqeni שְׁגִיאוֹת מִי־יָבִין; מִנִּסְתָּרוֹת נַקֵּנִי "Who can know all one's flaws? From hidden errors, correct me" (Psalms 19:13). If you'd like to directly support his work, please consider donating via his Patreon account. (Varady also translates prayers and contributes his own original work besides serving as the primary shammes of the Open Siddur Project and its website, opensiddur.org.)
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  Name: Hyman E. Goldin
  Bio: Rabbi Hyman Elias Goldin, LL.B. (March 15, 1881, near Vilna – 1972) was a Lithanian-American Orthodox Rabbi, attorney and Judaic scholar. A prolific author of English Jewish literature, he wrote over fifty works.
  Website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_Goldin
  Profile Link: https://opensiddur.org/profile/hyman-elias-goldin
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  Name: Hebrew Publishing Company
  Bio: The Hebrew Publishing Company was founded in 1900 by Joseph Werbelowsky (1884-1919). Occupying a former bank building on Delancey Street in Manhattan’s Lower East Side until the mid 1970s, the company remained owned by the Werbelowsky family (later shortened to Werbel) until 1980 when it was sold to Charles Lieber (1921-2016). During its first eighty years, the publishing house grew to become one of the most prominent publishing houses for Jewish books and sheet music.
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