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Rabbis Aren't Just Bookworms: They've Seen It ALL! #shorts
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Beyond religious duties, rabbis offer vital emotional support. This video explores their real-world role in guiding and comforting communities. Understand the human side of faith. #Rabbis #CommunitySupport #ReligiousLeaders #EmotionalWellbeing
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I think a lot of people assume the
rabbi's the last person that they would
want to speak to when something
unfortunate is going on in their life,
something that they wouldn't be proud of
cuz they assume the rabbi is you know
only sitting over a Gemara all day and
what will he do with this? A seasoned
rabbi, not talking about someone with
30, 40 years, but
a rabbi who's in the field and
connecting with his congregants probably
has seen much more
than your friends, much more than
another type of mentor.
Why am I not going to go to the rabbi?
The rabbi's understanding of many of the
issues going on in the community is much
greater and society and the culture is
much greater than the average person.
When we're
trying to train rabbinical students
to be prepared for a range, I mean a
very wide range of possible issues and
challenges that are brought to their
attention,
very often the rabbi will say to
himself, "Why are you coming to me?"
And you know, to change train them first
of all, as Rabbi Goldberg said, not to
not to look at them and say, "Oh my
gosh, I've never heard anything like
this before. That's That's crazy." And
if somebody's really, you know, if they
want to know, you know, what, you know,
I I can't decide where to get pizza
tonight. I think, you know, I think you
can actually say to them, you know, "I'm
not really sure that I have much to
offer here and and and in case you do."
But if somebody's coming and they're
they're they're not necessarily even
asking a question,
but want to talk about a particular
topic and you're saying to yourself,
"Why Why are they coming to me?" I know
that Rabbi Pinner has offered some a
whole range of possibilities why people
would be coming to the rabbi other than,
you know, the most obvious reasons to
you know, to because they're seeking
halakhic counsel.
>> And many more than the rabbi fixing it.
Sometimes they hope, in the case of this
example,
that the rabbi's going to fix the
problem. Very often I think that, you
know, you learn this after that we all
have those things. When someone comes to
us and they're like, "Okay, how am I
going to fix this?"
Very often they're not really coming to
the rabbi to fix it. And I think that
was one of the hardest things for me to
learn as a young rabbi. I remember a
situation where a woman shared with me
an abusive situation with her husband.
Um but she didn't she didn't want me to
reach out to the husband. At the time I
thought, as a young rabbi, that if I
could just speak to the husband, I could
solve the problem. But of course that's
not true either. What she really needed
was someone she could talk to and
someone she could cry to.
And I think that that's something that
you really learn as a rabbi and
something that sometimes only a rabbi
could do. Maybe a good friend. Not
everything could be shared with a good
friend.
That the role of the rabbi is simply to
be there for somebody, even if the
problem can't be solved, can't be fixed.
That simply being someone that somebody
checks in on you, someone who knows
what's going on checks on you. And that
was a really important lesson to learn.
If I could highlight a different reason
that people come to rabbis that maybe we
need to be more sensitive to be able to
see through
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