Pirkay Avos on Marriage: Timely Ideas from a Timeless Source

This book brings together two themes on which the author has previously written. In As a Tree by the Waters, which later became Chapters of the Sages, Rabbi Bulka presented a commentary on Pirkay Avos, showing how each Mishnah was linked to the previous Mishnah and the ensuing Mishnah. It was a thematic and psychological commentary.

Later, he wrote Jewish Marriage: An Halakhic Ethic, which was a detailed analysis of marriage from an halakhic and psychological perspective. 

This present volume brings these two themes together, as Rabbi Bulka gleans vital messages concerning marriage from each Mishnah in Pirkay Avos. In a distinct manner, this book is itself a marriage of two vital themes in Jewish life.

Rabbi Dr. Reuven P. Bulka, C.M., is the Rabbi Emeritus of Congregation Machzikei Hadas in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, where he served as Rabbi for 50 years. He is President/CEO of Kind Canada Généreux, and founding chair of Ottawa Kindness Week. 

He received Semikhah from the Rabbi Jacob Joseph Rabbinical Seminary in 1966, a Ph.D. in Logotherapy from the University of Ottawa in 1971, and an Honorary Doctorate from Carleton University in 2006.  

Over the course of his life, he has held many positions, including co-chair of Canadian Jewish Congress and Chair of Trillium Gift of Life Network, responsible for Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation in all of Ontario. 

The author of close to 40 books and a blood/platelet/plasma donor 369 times, he was appointed to the Order of Canada, Canada s highest civilian honor, on June 28, 2013. 

Together with his wife Leah (Kalish-Rosenbloom), they are blessed with children in a multitude of generations.