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But who am I, and who are my people? : a rabbi's reflections on the rabbinate and the Jewish community

Title: But who am I, and who are my people? : a rabbi's reflections on the rabbinate and the Jewish community / by Marc D. Angel.
Author: Angel, Marc.
Publication: Hoboken, NJ : Ktav Pub. House, [2001], ©2001.

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Description

xxi, 181 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"The world at large knows almost nothing about the life and work of a rabbi: the diverse responsibilities and obligations, the many stresses and pressures, the conflicting demands for time, energy and sympathetic understanding, the insistent public causes and private needs that demand intervention and compete for attention. Indeed, much of what rabbis do is unknown even to the members of their own congregations.".
"But Who Am I And Who Are My People? A Rabbi's Reflections on the Rabbinate and the Jewish Community by Dr. Marc Angel, rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel, the famed Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue of New York City, is a compelling and informative attempt to address this question.
Rabbi Angel, the spiritual leader of the oldest Jewish house of worship in the United States and former president of the Rabbinical Council of America, is one of this country's most prominent Orthodox Jewish leaders and a leading luminary of its rapidly growing Sephardic segment.".
"Rabbi Angel sets out to explain what it is that rabbis do any why. As the book's organizational principle, he utilizes the ten Sefirot of the Kabbalah, the mystical emanations in which aspects of the divine find expression in human life."--BOOK JACKET.

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ISBN

0881256943

LCCN

00046963

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Columbia University Libraries