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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453010203321

Autore

Bloom Jack H <1932-, >

Titolo

The rabbi as symbolic exemplar : by the power vested in me : for rabbis, other clergy, and the laity who care about them and their sacred work / / Jack H. Bloom

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Haworth Press, , 2002

ISBN

0-203-04941-1

1-283-88719-3

1-136-40728-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (340 p.)

Disciplina

296.6/1

296.61

Soggetti

Rabbis - Office

Pastoral theology (Judaism)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published by the Haworth Press, Inc., in 2002.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 Do9. 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

Sommario/riassunto

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