Is Your Career Over? with Bruce Feiler

Martini Judaism · Jun 21, 2023 · 56m

This conversation with author Bruce Feiler could not have happened at a more opportune time.

I am in the process of retiring from the full time congregational rabbinate. I am in the process of finishing up a pulpit career that lasted more than forty years.

Over the last few weeks I have found myself repeating the words of my rabbi. Peggy Lee, who sang plaintively: “Is that all there is?”

Is that all there is to being a rabbi? You build relationships; you teach Torah; you embody; you represent; you symbolize – and then, you reach the end of your work years – and then, what?

All of my friends…