Supervision, Rabbinic Style: Some Texts and Commentary


 

Publication Date: January 1987

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Richard J. Israel

Research Area: Culture and religion

Keywords: Religion; Jewish Education; Leadership

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

"Everything that was made during the six days of creation still needs work. Even man still needs fixing." (Gen. Rabbah 11). This article discusses different viewpoints on rabbinic supervision. It assumes that the rabbis indeed had views on this subject. Supervision concerns, among other things, power differentials between people, nurturance, honest human relationships, and personal change. We have much to learn from the rabbis' interesting and evocative reflections on these subjects.