Bircas hachamah is a Jewish prayer which comes around once every 28 years. If you’re like me, you probably don’t remember the last time it happened. So I started doing some research. If anyone else wants, here’s some good background information, the wikipedia page, and a good article about whether we really do it on the right day. (Summary: we don’t, but it’s tradition). My appetite whetted, I ordered Rabbi Bleich‘s book, Bircas Hachammah, published by some small Jewish publishing house. The first 133 pages of the book are exclusively in English, with English footnotes. The next 60 pageshave the actual service in Hebrew with its English transation, and about half the page covered with English footnotes. There are then another 50 pages of notes, charts, and other eppendices, almost all in English. For some reason, the book opens the Hebrew direction. Guh?!

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