Jewish Rabbi

Job Title:  :Jewish Rabbi 

Location : Butner, NC

Duties:

- Jewish Rabbi will provide worship leadership and religious instruction for the Jewish inmate population.

- Provide instruction for the various Jewish holy days, dietary laws, and interpretation of the Torah.

- The candidate shall cover the general topics listed below: 

• * Shabbat: Day of Rest
• * Rosh Hashanah: The New Year, Shofar-blowing
• * Yom Kippur: Day of Atonement
• * Shavout
• * Hannukah
• * Pesach: the Exodus of the Jewish People
• * Pesach: Rules of a Sede
•  * Sukkot
• * Purim
• * Tisha B’Av: Eicha
• * Torah Reading: Trope
• * ‘Mitzvot and Aveirot (Good and Bad Deeds)
• * Tallit and Tefillin (more generally, ritual garb)
• * Symbolism in Judaism
• * Kabbalah: Jewish Mysticism
• * Prayer in Judaism: Shacharit, Mincha and Maariv
• * The Sh’ma (Hear O Israel
• * Kashrut
• * The Ten Commandments
• * The Jewish Family
• * The Many Books of Judaism
• * Halakha (Jewish Law)
• * Bar Mitzvah: the Jewish Concept of Adulthood
• * Havdallah: Separating the Sabbath from the Rest of the Week
• * Jewish Calendar ...

Education & Qualifications:

• Must possess an ordination certification or like document showing they are a Rabbi, teacher, or Jewish spiritual leader in good standing with their faith community
• Possess, at a minimum, a Bachelor's degree and Rabbinical Accreditation from a Jewish School of Theology.
• Possess recognized experience in pastoral ministry.
• Authorization to perform all the functions ordinarily required of a recognized Rabbi, and that the Contractor is in good standing.
• Recommendation from a local synagogue.