Written by: Rabbi Cary Kozberg for WhiteRoseMagazine THANKS to the man on a blue notebook, I became a rabbi instead of a doctor. That blue notebook was called a machberet, and it was given out to students in afternoon Hebrew Schools during the 1950s. On the front was the likeness of Maimonides, the renowned 12th century rabbi. Until I was a freshman in college, my total knowledge of Maimonides was the little I...