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Rabbis Find Strength in Pain & Resilience, Yes, Joy in Ministry

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Yaakov Lemmer

Rabbis find profound purpose in confronting life's difficulties and deriving meaning from service.

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When we look out, we see we see all again sort of all those secrets, you know, the all the pain of so many people in front of us. But there's something else we see as well, and you you know where I'm going with this. And as we see all the the the strength and the resilience as well. Dr. Pelcovitz, who's a mentor to all of us, you know, that all has most of his training, I think, and his his professional experience was in trauma work. But he spoke a lot always about this what what he called it um post-traumatic growth, vicarious resilience. And we always talk about the vicarious trauma

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  1. 0:00When we look out, we see we see all again sort of all those secrets, you
  2. 0:31always talk about the vicarious trauma the rabbis, mental health professionals, emergency responders that they endure
  3. 1:03surely move move forward, we get an inside, you know, perspective on that as well. And
  4. 1:33things that drain the energy. I think people get that wrong. That's what gives me meaning

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