"Provide yourself with a Rabbi" (Talmud, Avoth, ch 1, Mishnah 6).
"Despise the Rabbinate" (Talmud, Avoth, ch 1, Mishnah 10).
"Any Rabbi whom the community does not constantly wish to fire is no Rabbi" (Rabbi Israel Lipkin of Salant [1810-1883]).
This mixed ethos is a fact of synagogue or church life, which in effect recognizes that any position of leadership, even a spiritual one, invites a certain degree of inevitable...
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