| Description |
1 online resource (340 pages) |
| Contents |
Front Cover -- The Rabbi as Symbolic Exemplar -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. An Athletic Coach for Rabbis: The Path I Have Come?! -- 2. Psychotherapy and Judaism Today: The Interface -- 3. Who Become Clergy? -- Symbolic Exemplarhood -- 4. The Special Tensions of Being "The Rabbi" -- 5. Symbolic Exemplarhood and the Rabbi's Family -- 6. The Inner Life of the Rabbi, or Who's at Home Anyway? And What's All the Commotion About? -- 7. The Silenced Modim-Modim d'Rabanan: Tending Our Wounded Selves -- Educating About Symbolic Exemplarhood -- 8. By the Power Vested in Me: What Rabbis Need to Know and Do -- 9. The Seasons of a Rabbi: Dilemmas and Suggestions for Training -- Using the Power of Symbolic Exemplarhood -- 10. Witnessing, Naming, and Blessing -- 11. Curing and Healing -- 12. The Eulogy as a Tool in Grief Work -- 13. Ten Commandments for Rabbis -- The Rabbi as Symbolin the Public Arena -- 14. Journey to Understanding -- 15. A Refusenik Odyssey -- Index |
| Summary |
The solution to the growing problem of stress and burnout in rabbis!Written by a practicing clinical psychologist who spent 10 years as a congregational rabbi, The Rabbi As Symbolic Exemplar: By the Power Vested in Me presents positive solutions to the inevitable negative effects of symbolic exemplarhood, coaching rabbis through dilemmas of the?inner soul.? Being a rabbi means serving as a Symbolic Exemplar of the best that is in humankind, being experienced and treated and expected to act as a stand-in for God, and a walking, talking symbol of all that Jewish tradition represents |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Pastoral theology (Judaism)
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Rabbis -- Office.
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Pastoral theology (Judaism)
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Rabbis -- Office
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136407284 |
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1136407286 |
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