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

by Jack H. Bloom

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789018667
• ISBN13: 9780789018663
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"