Pastoral Care Educational Services Ritual and Life-Cycle Why Pastoral Rabbinics? After many years as a lawyer and transformative mediator, I was ordained on January 9, 2022, as a Rabbinic Chaplain through the Aleph Ordination Program. A Rabbinic Chaplain is educated and trained to do the wide variety of things that all Rabbis do. But a Rabbinic Chaplain places more emphasis throughout the course of his studies on the pastoral aspects of the Rabbinate like chaplaincy and pastoral counseling. As a