The Rabbi As Symbolic Exemplar : By the Power Vested in Me

ISBN-13: 9780789018656 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 360 str.

Jack H. Bloom

Opis

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 exemplar coaching rabbis through dilemmas of the inner soul. Being a rabbi means being a living Torah, a walking, talking symbol of all that Jewish tradition represents. The burden of being a symbolic exemplar of God is extraordinary and the struggle to live up to its requirements can be one of loneliness, frustration and despair, resulting in the alienation of rabbis who are tired of living in a glass house

Spis treści

• 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 the 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 SYMBOL IN THE PUBLIC ARENA
• 14. Journey to Understanding
• 15. A Refusenik Odyssey
• Appendix
• Index
• Reference Notes Included

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Jack H Bloom