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

ISBN-13: 9780789018663 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 356 str.

James Yood; 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 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. 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, alienating rabbis who tire of living in a glass house.Visit the author's website at http: //jackhbloom.com

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

O autorze

Jack H Bloom