MC -- your post is most appreciated. As a rabbi who consults to congregations and formerly had a pulpit -- one of the most vexing issues for rabbis is see themselves clearly in light of the intense projections on them. When a congregant is disappointed in the rabbi, the rabbi must make room for the possibility that the disappointment is part of a story that might have been playing 40 years ago. Sometimes congregants celebration of their rabbi is also connected to projection and rabbis need to sort that out too. It's hard. So to the extent that folk can remember that rabbis are people, Mharei zeh meshubach, this is praiseworthy.
I loved When Joy Comes in the Morning. I felt like Rosen was writing about people who I knew personally and that the internal musings and conversations were coming out of my own head. I liked it so much I wrote a review of it on my blog.
MC -- your post is most appreciated. As a rabbi who consults to congregations and formerly had a pulpit -- one of the most vexing issues for rabbis is see themselves clearly in light of the intense projections on them. When a congregant is disappointed in the rabbi, the rabbi must make room for the possibility that the disappointment is part of a story that might have been playing 40 years ago. Sometimes congregants celebration of their rabbi is also connected to projection and rabbis need to sort that out too. It's hard. So to the extent that folk can remember that rabbis are people, Mharei zeh meshubach, this is praiseworthy.
I loved When Joy Comes in the Morning. I felt like Rosen was writing about people who I knew personally and that the internal musings and conversations were coming out of my own head. I liked it so much I wrote a review of it on my blog.