03490oam 2200661I 450 991096212360332120251116155521.01-136-40735-90-203-04941-11-283-88719-31-136-40728-610.4324/9780203049419 (CKB)2550000000710488(EBL)1099335(OCoLC)823389423(SSID)ssj0000811707(PQKBManifestationID)11447521(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000811707(PQKBWorkID)10851452(PQKB)10522461(OCoLC)847595233(MiAaPQ)EBC1099335(Au-PeEL)EBL1099335(CaPaEBR)ebr10639966(CaONFJC)MIL419969(OCoLC)606927496(FINmELB)ELB135905(EXLCZ)99255000000071048820180706d2002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe 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. BloomNew York :Haworth Press,2002.1 online resource (340 p.)First published by the Haworth Press, Inc., in 2002.0-7890-1866-7 0-7890-1865-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Exemplarhood8. 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; IndexThe 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 representsRabbisOfficePastoral theology (Judaism)RabbisOffice.Pastoral theology (Judaism)296.6/1296.61Bloom Jack H1932-,1875903MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910962123603321The rabbi as symbolic exemplar4487206UNINA